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Benedetta Pilato was disqualified by the judges for an irregularity in the female 100 breaststroke. The Taranto had closed her battery with the fifth time and would not have reached the semifinals anyway. «It was a horrible race, but what did I do then? I really don’t know why they disqualified me », these are the words of the blue swimmer. «In any case I swam in a horrible way – admitted Pilate – I don’t know how to explain, I felt very tired. The pressure? Maybe that one, I don’t know, ”concluded the 16-year-old from Taranto to the microphones of Rai Sport.