CONEGLIANO
The official status has not yet arrived from the Federcanottaggio, but the… Games are done. And her presence, yesterday at the Quirinale for the ceremony of the handover of the flag, already says it all: Alessandra Patelli will participate in the second Olympics of her career, competing in doubles with Chiara Ondoli. In fact, she “spoiled” everything herself on social media: “When you wear the official uniform everything is a little more true … Second Olympics, I’m coming”. That he had now earned the trip to Tokyo was understood in the last round of the World Cup, when at the beginning of June in Sabaudia he took the bronze in the doubles and redeemed the disappointment of not passing in four without at the Pre-Olympic in Lucerne . The 29-year-old Coneglianese of Canottieri Padova, already finalist B with the two without in Rio 2016, was able to relaunch herself in a short time in another boat, making yet another masterpiece of resilience in a career that has seen her for 10 years in the national team . The failed Pre-Olympic had been a very hard blow: Covid had also put a hand in it, which had hit a boatmate. Now the perspective changes, in a month it will be Olympics again. And so the dream cradled upon returning in 2018, after a sabbatical year, comes true: she had restarted from the two without with Sara Bertolasi, climbing on the Europodio in Glasgow. –
M.T.