The blue in the history of the Games: no swimmer had ever succeeded in the enterprise: “It was my goal here”
TOKYO. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Federica Pellegrini qualified for the final of the 200 freestyle with the seventh time. For the Italian it is the fifth Olympic final in the same test: a milestone that had never been reached by any swimmer before (among the men from Sydney and Rio, Michael Phelps succeeded). “It was not the minimum goal, this was my real goal for this Olympics,” he said in tears.
“It was – he added – a difficult goal because the level has risen a lot. I thank my wonderful staff who have followed me in these two years. It was certainly this – he repeated several times – the goal of this Olympics”. “I’m very happy – he added -. It’s all very nice. And now just fun for my last 200 style”. The final is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3.41.
Federica Pellegrini’s feat is one of the most beautiful surprises, while the surprise elimination in tennis of the n.2 of the world Naomi Osaka, the last torchbearer of the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony, opens up. competitions of the Olympics. In swimming, Thomas Ceccon’s fourth and seventh place in the 100 backstroke and Martina Carraro in the 100 breaststroke also opened the Olympic day in Tokyo in an Italian key. Osaka, on the other hand, lost badly in tennis to the Czech Vondrousova, who won the third round 6-1 6-4: her elimination follows that of Barty, n.1 Wta.
Well Lupo-Nicolai, beach volleyball winners of the Japanese couple Ishijama-Shiratori. Rebecca Nicoli also won in boxing, lightweight category, overtaking the Mexican Esmeralda Falcon Reyes on points 4-1. Out, however, in Judo, Christian Parlati who lost to ippon against the Japanese Nagase in the round of 16 of the 81 kg category. Also today, under a pouring rain and with the tropical storm approaching, the first historic Olympic gold medal in Bermuda arrived, with Flora Duffy in the women’s Triathlon, in which the best of the Italians was Alice Betto, seventh.
First final in the history of the Surf Games: one of the great favorites, the Brazilian Italo Ferreira, and the home favorite Kanoa Igarashi, who with a spectacular air jump overtook the other Brazilian Gabriel Medina, authentic idol in his homeland and great friend of Neymar.
Finally, another story comes from swimming, because Briton Tom Dean took gold after having had Covid twice in the last year. “An unprecedented thing, and in all those days locked in the house, a medal seemed to me a million miles away,” he commented incredulously. (HANDLE).
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