Arco, eliminated in the round of 16 in the Mixed team with Chiara Rebagliati. From Tuesday the individual test
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The dream of Mauro Nespoli from Voghera to play for a medal in the mixed team, a race that made its Olympic debut in Tokyo, stops in the second round. In the sadly empty stadium set up at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, Mauro Nespoli and Chiara Rebagliati went down 0-2 in the first set, losing with the partial 36-37. In the second volley, Italy fails to enter 10 and gives the Dutch duo the opportunity to go 0-4 with a partial 34-39. Wijler and Schloesser give a glimpse to the blues in the third fraction of the game, scoring two 8s, but Nespoli and Rebagliati fail to take advantage of it by closing another set without 10 and with an average not up to par.
The volley ended 33-35 and the Netherlands won with a clear 6-0. The Dutch duo then continued their run to play the final for gold against South Korea where it was 5-3. Unfortunately, the performance of Mauro Nespoli and Chiara Rebagliati was not up to their abilities. Both suffered the match played in the elimination stage and their disappointment is palpable, so much so that the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò, present in the stands together with the President of Fitarco Mario Scarzella, tries to cheer up the two blue archers by inviting them to watch the next matches. : «Come on, you still have the chance to return to the field. Your Olympics is not over yet ». Mauro Nespoli tried to analyze a situation that did not satisfy him, also considering the problems he had the previous day in the ranking round: “It is useless to hide that I am very angry – the term that uses blue is more colorful – on the training field before the competition with the Dutch I had shot well, minimizing the problems I had had during qualifying. In the race, on the other hand, certain situations recurred, certainly in the initial arrow and this did not contribute to increasing confidence in my shot. I didn’t dare move the viewfinder, concentrating more on shooting them well. If others have complained about the wind, I don’t think that was the problem. I’m sorry I opened this Olympics with a 7, also because the next 10 didn’t work. I am also sorry because I was not able to bring my experience into play and in this way I did not even help Chiara who was making her debut on such a stage ».
The Olympian knows that he still has only one chance to reassess his fourth presence at the Games: the individual match that will see him return to the field for the 32nd on Tuesday at 9.43 am Tokyo (2.43 am Italian time) against Slovenian Ziga Ravnikar: «Right now over 60% of my Olympics is already behind me. I have to try in the hours that separate me from the individual competition to understand what went wrong on the first day and what was missing on the pitch in the mixed team race. Now that we know what it means to compete in this stadium, my only goal must be to find myself to express myself according to my possibilities “.