12 days after the Olympic competition, the blue number 1 in golf, after the cut at The Open, risks a forfeit for the Games. Coni asked the IOC to be able to replace Chicco with the Roman
Will Molinari be there in Tokyo? Unfortunately, the risk that Chicco has to give up the Games is very high. So much so that on Saturday afternoon Coni even announced his departure and the request to replace him with Renato Paratore, a 24-year-old Roman. In the evening, however, the partial reverse with Molinari’s decision to try everything to participate for the first time in the Olympics to which he had already had to say no in 2016, when golf was back in the Olympic program after more than a century of absence. . Molinari does not want to give up the Olympic dream and remains in the running at least until Sunday to be part of the blue team. He will try all possible physiotherapy treatments until the end, as confirmed by Federgolf. Molinari, fresh from a failure at the Open Championship, has felt a worsening of the back problems that have plagued him in recent times. A problem that, if not solved, would force the Turin champion to skip the Olympics again after he had already given up on Rio 2016. Molinari is also very much in doubt about the tight deadlines for recovery, given that the Olympic tournament will begin on 29 July. In Tokyo Italy will be represented by Guido Migliozzi, Giulia Molinaro and Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso. And from Renato Paratore if in the end Francesco Molinari will not make it for real.
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