Fencing, the Olympic champion Cesare Salvadori died at the age of 80. He was a big fan of Toro

The world of fencing mourns Cesare Salvadori, silver in the team saber at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1968 Mexico City and gold in the same discipline, as a reserve, at the 1972 Munich Games. next 22 September.

The news of his death arrives on the day of the closing of the Tokyo Olympics. Gold collar for sporting merit, an honor that he was awarded in 2015, the name of Salvadori will also remain linked to the reconstruction of Filadelfia, the stadium of Grande Torino.

A great grenade fan, from 2013 to 2017 he was the president of the Philadelphia Foundation, a position he left after the reconstruction and inauguration of the plant.