Italy fourth in the 4 x 100 relay. The Butterflies fly to the final. 10 km cross-country in the Seine: Acerenza just misses the medal, Paltrinieri ninth. Water polo, the sensational protest of the Settebello

In Paris 2024, Italy, reigning champion of the specialty in Tokyo, finished fourth in the men’s 4 x 100 relay. Gold to Canada, silver to South Africa, bronze to Great Britain.

The Italian 4×100 relay team, defending the Olympic gold won in Tokyo, finished in fourth place with a time of 37.68. Gold went to Canada (37.50), silver to South Africa (37.57), bronze to Great Britain (37.61). Matteo Melluzzo (10.40), Marcell Jacobs (8.96), Lorenzo Patta (9.12) and Filippo Tortu (9.20) achieved the best time of the season. (ITALPRESS).

No podium for the Italian long-distance swimmers in the 10km of the Paris 2024 Games, a race along the “controversial” Seine.

Hungarian Kristof Rasovszky won the gold medal, ahead of German Oliver Klemet, silver, and fellow Hungarian David Betlehem, bronze.

Fourth place, just shy of third place, for Domenico Acerenza, 29 years old from Potenza, of Canottieri Napoli.

“Only” ninth, however, was Gregorio Paltrinieri, 29 years old from Carpi, of the Fiamme Oro, winner of two medals in the pool at these Games (800 and 1500).

Meanwhile the quarter-final of the Olympic tournament of water polo Italy and Hungary will not be replayed: the CAS also rejected the appeal of the Italian Swimming Federation. The Italian Swimming Federation, after the two appeals rejected by World Aquatics, had decided to turn to the ad hoc division established for the Paris Games by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Voluntary numerical inferiority for protest. This is what Sandro Campagna’s Settebello put into practice, engaged in the semi-final for fifth place: in the attacking actions of Spain, in fact, an Italian player was not interested in the defensive action. The protest lasted 4′, the same time in which Condemi was unfairly punished in the match valid for the quarter-finals against Hungary which provoked vibrant protests from Italy until the appeal to the CAS, rejected.

In these minutes of blue protest, Spain managed to score 3 goals. Before the start of the match, during the anthem, the team had turned their backs to the jury.

The Italian Butterflies fly to the final of the general competition of the Rhythmic gymnastics of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with the second overall score. Only Bulgaria did better than the Italians. Ukraine came in third.
Alessia Maurelli, Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Daniela Mogurean and Laura Paris have thus achieved qualification for the eight-team final, scheduled for tomorrow, which Brazil and Spain, two of the candidates for a leading role, missed out on.
The Italians, among other things, recorded the best score on the five hoops. “I’m fine with that,” commented technical director Emanuela Maccarani, “second place gives us energy without having the pressure of first place. The girls are perfectly aware of what they can do. This team deserves a medal.” For captain Alessia Maurelli, “it was a great debut. We entered very focused and broke the ice with a very clean execution on the hoops. We took something away, here we can do even better. There was a small problem on the ribbons but we managed to manage it. We knew that the race was unpredictable and so we had it in our heads to bring home the qualification without making mistakes. And we succeeded.”