PARIS — It makes you want to write on the walls: the Italy of women has passed through here. Like a great wave that carries skies, lives, different geographies. And sweeps away anger and resentment. Concrete, lucid, aware. Without nostalgia for everything that never happened. Not the bungling Italy of Dino Risi’s Il Sorpasso, but the one that knows how to sew threads, cut and mend. Make a drawing and lend a hand. A mixed, current, modern Italy, glocalwhich has the world within itself, but also the small province, that of Guareschi, which has scattered registry offices. Ekaterina (Antropova), born in Iceland to Russian parents, Sarah (Far) comes from Germany, Monica (from Gennaro) from Sorrento, Catherine (Bosetti) from Busto Arsizio, Alessia (Orro) from Oristano, Sardinia, Anna (Danes) from Roncadelle, Myriam (Chair) from Palermo. One day at a street corner a couple, Paolo and Maria, notice a cold gentleman, welcome him into their home and make him work. The gentleman, Abduolaye, comes from the Ivory Coast, has his wife Salimata come and there Myriam is born.
The sisters of Italy collect more golds than their brothers: 7-3. After 20 years, the Italian women return to success and win the sixth gold in a team sport. Plus two mixed golds: Tita-Banti in sailing and Bacosi-Rossetti in clay pigeon shooting, a sign that in this country men and women can work together, without submission, unequal pay and treatment. If only Italy could look at its sport not as a summer vacation, but as a model to inspire in everyday life. Where there is room for those who deserve and for those who work towards excellence. The Italian volleyball players smiled, but they were cool and focused, without cognitive fog. Each one improved. Paola Egonuborn in Cittadella, Italy (it’s worth remembering) hasn’t used social media since the day after the inauguration. She says: «Velasco’s two daily rolls were useful, even in the little things that aren’t my specialty». Translation: I even threw myself on the ground to catch balls.
Bruno Vespa and the volleyball athletes: “Black and Italian, an example of integration”. And the tweet is overwhelmed by criticism
Away with the ghosts, the defeat with Serbia in Tokyo 2020. Also thanks to Julio Velasco who has gathered the best around him, an excellent technical staff (Barbolini, Bernardi) because great craftsmanship alone is not enough. And who chose a hotel, without immersing the team in the Olympic blender, acting as a lightning rod, as glue, as clear weather. Proving once again that a good coach shows his players what they can be, rather than what they are. And the exchange of medals between Danish and Sylla on the podium, the delicacy with which each one placed their medal around the other’s neck meant this: we grew up together and together we will reach the finish line.
Alice Bellandi at her second Olympics she won gold in judo and immediately afterwards she went to kiss her partner Jasmine, also a judoka, without hiding her feelings because if you do sports you look for clarity in the result and in your life and this too is a gesture that should have free circulation from the tatami to all the squares of Italy.
Alice D’Amato21 years old, the gymnast who beat the queen Simone Bileswhen she was little she moved to Brescia to the International Academy, she lost her father in 2022, and her twin, also a gymnast, was injured three times (cruciate ligament rupture) in two years. Another would have been scared, but she felt so grown up that she took on the legacy made of sacrifice and training. She followed her own trajectory and on the beam, the most dangerous apparatus there is, while the others fell, she remained wonderfully standing. Far from being ignorant fairies.
Alice D’Amato: “I don’t have a normal life, but I love it and it doesn’t weigh me down”
from our correspondent Cosimo Cito
In windsurfing the Cagliaritan Martha Maggetti brought gold back to Italy 24 years later Alessandra Sensini. Fourth in Tokyo, she didn’t give up: «Thanks also to the sea I feel like a stronger woman». Chiara Consonni e Victoria Guazziniin the Madison where cunning, calculation, speed, legs, and eye for detail are needed, they won a surprise gold. Paired on the track at the last minute, they demonstrated that women also know how to find happiness in emergency and improvisation.
The medals won by Italy at the 2024 Olympics: from Ganna’s silver to the gold of the girls’ volleyball team
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Jasmine Paulini e Sarah Errani they were a golden couple (they formed the doubles a year ago) and they won a title that the Italian tennis had always lacked. An Olympics is not a war between genders nor a bonfire of vanity, it does not serve to polish pride. But to raise one’s head, yes. It would be nice if Italy could understand the embrace between two girls, Egonu and Antropova, who everyone wanted as rivals and understand that you can stand side by side in diversity. You just need to want to look at the same horizon. This would be the next match to win.
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– 2024-08-12 04:10:44
