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World Championships in Budapest, for blue swimming without Pellegrini it is (almost) the year zero

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World Championships in Budapest, for blue swimming without Pellegrini it is (almost) the year zero

ROME. For the Italy of swimming, without its Federica Pellegrini totem, 2022 is a kind of year zero. Yet, on the eve of the world championship in Budapest, which Federnuoto Internazionale has chosen to replace Fukuoka 2021, the coach of the Azzurri who swim between the lanes, Cesare Butini, is optimistic, despite the absence of Italian swimmers in the starting blocks in that which was Federica’s race par excellence, the 200 freestyle: “It’s a pity not to have anyone in her race, just as it is not to register the women’s 4×100 and 4×200 relays”, said the coach, who then moved the goal on the European Championships in Rome in August, another fundamental appointment of a very busy summer. “We will start a new project on women – explained Butini – trying to involve the coaches and the girls and bring them to meet: I must say that there is often not much willingness to leave home, but Pellegrini herself did it by going to Verona,” and his example must remain “.

Among the girls, the baton passes to Simona Quadarella, a name that is a guarantee, while there is curiosity for Benedetta Pilato, a year ago in this same swimming pool, author of the world record in the 50 breaststroke (29”30) and already d ‘ silver at the world championships at 14, but overwhelmed by a growth crisis at the Tokyo Olympics. Benedetta, in Hungary, is not the youngest of the group because Butini will launch 2006 Lorenzo Galossi, in the 400 style. After Federica, the captain will be Gregorio Paltrinieri, who will arrive in Budapest a few days later because he will also be involved in the cross-country races, but will try to tear apart, as usual, 800 and 1500. The Azzurri in the race between the lanes are 29, in Gwangju in 2019 the booty was 8 medals: 3 golds, 2 silvers, 3 bronzes. The goal is always the same, to improve. Even if it won’t be easy. From Friday 17th the synchronized swimming program will start and next week, finally, the first matches also for the national water polo teams: on Monday 20th the debut of the Setterosa against Canada, on Tuesday 21st it will be the turn of Settebello against South Africa.

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All the races of the world championship will be live on free-to-air TV on Rai and streaming on Rai Play: in the morning, on Rai Sport + HD, the elimination heats and the preliminary routines of the synchronized program, in the afternoon, on Rai 2, the finals, synchro and in lane, with the commentary by Enrico Cattaneo and Paola Celli and that of Tommaso Mecarozzi and Luca Sacchi, with interviews by Elisabetta Caporale. Finally, on the digital terrestrial channel 58, all the matches of the two water polo tournaments, with the story of Dario Di Gennaro and Francesco Postiglione.

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