Paralympic Athletics, the tricolor was awarded to the Paralympic flag bearers Ambra Sabatini and Luca Mazzone

The supply of the Tricolore to the flag bearers of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Video games befell this morning on the Quirinale. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella entrusted the standard-bearers Ambra Sabatini and Luca Mazzone with the flag with which they may lead the Italian delegation to the opening ceremony of the Paralympics on August 28 within the French capital.

“After they informed me that I’d be one of many flag bearers for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, I felt so many alternative sensations . On one hand, there’s the emotion, the delight, that sudden shiver that runs down your backbone while you perceive that it will likely be you strolling on the head of the group holding the flag that represents us in your palms. However, there’s the conviction, the need, that energy that has at all times allowed me to dream large, in sport and in life, on and off the observe, earlier than and after the accident,” feedback the Tokyo 2020 champion, who continues: “I need to make the most of this solemn event not solely to thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for pondering of me, not solely to take the flag and promise my finest, but additionally to share a message, that of sport, the one place on the planet the place will and emotion are protagonists collectively and the place the energy of a dream is required to at all times preserve them united. Possibly today is only a large dream, or perhaps this magnificence is the results of a acutely aware selection that’s repeated each morning and that’s realized within the values ​​of sport. The need to enhance, to check and compete towards one another with out ever ceasing to really feel like brothers and sisters of Italy”.

The selection of Ambra Sabatini as Italy’s chief throughout the XVII version of the Paralympic Video games is a supply of nice satisfaction for all of Fispes, as expressed by the Federal President Sandrino Porru: “The selection of the Italian Paralympic Committee to establish Ambra Sabatini as the following standard-bearer of the Paris Paralympics is undoubtedly a supply of delight for our Federation. Ambra, regardless of her very younger age, has already grow to be a logo for the brand new generations and we hope that sooner or later she may also be an instance for a lot of new younger individuals who, in admiring her feats and imitating her, will strategy Paralympic sport.”