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Tokyo, Elia Viviani and Jessica Rossi will be the blue flag bearers

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UDINE. The cyclist Elia Viviani and the skeet shooter Jessica Rossi will be Italy’s standard-bearers at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Coni president Giovanni Malagò has just announced it to the members of the Giunta who made it official after the meeting of the newly elected Hall of Honor of the Olympic Committee at the Foro Italico. The choice fell on a pair of Olympic champions (Viviani in the track cycling Omnium at Rio 2016, Rossi in the trap in London 2012). The double standard bearer is an absolute novelty in line with the indications of the IOC for gender equality, both will receive the tricolor from the hands of the President of the Republic next June 23 at the Quirinale, exactly one month before the opening ceremony.

The Emilian shooter of the Fiamme Oro surprised by surprisingly winning at just 20 years old in the Trap in London (but she had won the world championships in 2009 the year before), since then she has been world champion 2 more times (2013 and 2017), she is the first of his sport to be standard-bearer, but brings as a dowry the many medals that the shooting has guaranteed to Italy (9 golds, 8 silvers and 8 bronzes)

Elia Viviani is a professional cyclist who rides for Cofidis and is currently involved in the Giro d’Italia where he collected 2 third places, also for the 32 year old from Vallese di Oppeano (Verona) the honor of being the first cyclist chosen as standard bearer ( and the cycling medal is 33 golds, 16 silvers 10 bronzes). Olympic truck in Rio in the omnium, the track specialty that brings together scratch, elimination race, time trial and points race. Sprinter by profession, 79 career victories, including a European championship, an Italian championship, stages in the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta. He is the real initiator, with his exploits, of the current, extraordinary era of the blue track. He is engaged to a colleague, the sprinter Elena Cecchini and as a young man he also played tennis, skating and football. However, he is not in the best period of his career: in the last two years with the red and white jersey of the French team he collected only one success, the GP Cholet, last March. His brother Attilio is also in the race.

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