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Tokyo 2020, first medal for Italy: Dell’Aquila in the final in taekwondo. At 12.25 Samele to play the gold in the saber

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First game of Basket 3×3 in Italian Olympic history and the first victory for Italy. In the Japanese afternoon, the Italians, coached by Andrea Capobianco, defeated Mongolia 15-14 in a match played outdoors, at the Aomi Urban Sport Parks. At 21.25 Japanese (14.25 Italian) Italy will challenge France, one of the favorites to win the gold medal of the discipline that made its debut in the Olympic program in Tokyo 2020.

Excellent debut of the blue Irma “Butterfly” Testa in the Tokyo Olympic ring. In a match of the first round of the featherweight category (57 kg), the policewoman from Torre Annunziata beat the team on points 4-1 (30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 28-29). Russian, here as “neutral athlete” Liudmila Vorontsova. In the next round, that of the round of 16, Irma will face the Irish Michaela Walsh, n.3 in the world ranking.

Carapaz dominates in cycling, cramps for Bettiol less than 20 kilometers from the finish

Richard Carapaz won the gold medal in the men’s cycling event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Colombian climber triumphed solo. Wout Van Aert and Tadej Pogacar, the favorites on the eve, finished second and third respectively in the photo finish. Carapaz’s is the second Olympic gold in Ecuador’s history, after the one won by walker Jefferson Perez in the 50 km at the 1996 Atlanta Games. The Italian Alberto Bettiol was unlucky as he battled in the first group of the road cycling test. : the blue was taken by cramps, and had to slow down considerably, while he was trying to get back on the American McNulty and the Ecuadorian Carapaz who had gained about fifteen seconds of advantage less than twenty kilometers from the finish. He finished 14th, 20th Gianni Moscon,

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The first medal for Italy is from Dell’Aquila in taekwondo
The first medal for Italy arrives at the Tokyo Games. In the real debut of the Olympic competitions, Vito Dell’Aquila qualified for the final for the taekwondo gold in the 58 kilos category. He beat Argentine Lucaz Guzman in the semifinals with a score of 29-10. The blue had previously won 26-13 on the Hungarian Omar Salim in the round of 16 and on the Thai Ramnarong Awekwiharee in the quarterfinals (37-17). Dell’Aquila is now already sure of a medal but to find out what metal it will be we will have to wait for the final scheduled at 14.45 Italian time. At the Makuhari Messe Hall in Tokyo, Dell’Aquila will face Tunisian Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi for the gold medal in the category up to 58 kilograms.

Vito Dell’Aquila is originally from Mesagne, in the province of Brindisi, and was born on November 3, 2000. In the world ranking, the blue figure in second place behind Jun Jang (South Korea) and is quite ahead of his opponent in the final. Olympic: Jendoubi is in fact 23rd in the world ranking. Dell’Aquila won bronze at the 2017 Muju World Championships, competing in the 54 kg category which is not Olympic. And that is why it has risen to that of 58 kilograms.


Bitter tennis
Bittersweet start for Italian tennis in Tokyo 2020, with the eliminations in the first round of Sara Errani and Lorenzo Musetti redeemed by the successes of Fabio Fognini and Lorenzo Sonego against two home athletes. Sara Errani was eliminated by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in a game without history, which ended 6-0, 6-1, of which only the Russian’s illness from the heat at 4-1 in the second set was noted. Lorenzo Musetti, number 61 in the world, was also out, overtaken by the Australian John Millman (44 in the world) in two sets (6-3 6-4), in an hour and 35 minutes. A few hours later the happy notes arrived: Fabio Fognini, number 31 in the world, beat the Japanese Yuichi Sugita (114) with a dry 6-4 6-3 in an hour and 48 minutes of play. Lorenzo Sonego (world number 26, took three hours and seven minutes to complete the comeback and beat another Japanese player, Taro Daniel (110 in the world), in three sets, 4-6 7-6 (6) 7-6 ( 3).

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Samele, semifinal in the men’s saber

Luigi Samele is in the semifinal in the men’s saber test at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The blue beat Enrico Berrè 15-10 in the Italian derby. The semifinals are scheduled from 19 Japanese (12 Italian).

Rowing, the Italians advance
The blue “four without” made up of Matteo Castaldo, Bruno Rosetti, Matteo Lodo and Giuseppe Vicino made it to the final. Both in the semifinals, however, the two without men and women of Italy formed by Giovanni Abagnale and Marco Di Costanzo (second in the battery behind only Australia) and Aisha Rocek and Kiri Tondonati. Federica Cesarini and Valentina Rodini and Stefano Oppo and Pietro Ruta also advance in the two lightweights.

Sword female, all the blue in the race eliminated
No chance of a medal in the women’s blue sword at the Tokyo Olympics. The three Italian swordsmen have all been eliminated. Deputy Olympic champion Rossella Fiamingo was beaten by Estonian Katrina Lehis for 15-7. Federica Isola was also eliminated in the quarters, surpassed by the Chinese Yiwen Sun for 11-10. Out in the second round Mara Navarria defeated 15-10 with the Estonian Lehis.

The results in the night: the first gold of Tokyo 2020 is of the Chinese Yang
The first medal of these Olympic Games goes to Qian Yang, from China, in the women’s 10-meter rifle. Sofia Ceccarello, the Italian competing in the specialty, was eliminated in the qualifying round for the final with a bad last shot after a good series of previous shots. In the 10-meter pistol men eliminated Paolo Monna. In archery out Chiara Rebagliati and Mauro Nespoli in the mixed team. In judo, Francesca Milani is eliminated.

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The comeback of Italvolley
At dawn, for the Italian hours, Italvolley goes under, suffers and then takes pride out and wins the last set. Good first for the Azzurri of Chicco Blengini at their debut in Tokyo 2020 against Canada: down by two sets at the start (26-28; 18-25), the Azzurri recover by winning three extremely tight sets (25-21; 25-18) ; 15-11) and bringing home the first two points of the standings that could be decisive in a group that also includes World champion Poland, in addition to the hosts of Japan, the fearsome Iran and Venezuela.

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