Paris 2024, minus 21. Malagò: “Unbelievable, in Italian biking there are extra ladies than males”

21 days to go till the opening of Paris 2024. Workforce Italy is now taking form, ready for the athletics checklist and a basketball exploit. “The outcomes are there for all to see. There is a crucial multidisciplinarity, from Bmx to trace the place we’re very aggressive, then there’s mountain biking which has allowed us to have a full Olympic playing cards”: stated Giovanni Malagò, president of CONI, through the presentation of the Olympic and Paralympic biking staff (36 passes in whole, 24 Olympic and 12 Paralympic) that can go to Paris 2024. “There are extra ladies than males within the subsequent expedition to the Video games and occupied with biking it’s unimaginable as a result of within the collective creativeness it has all the time been a purely male self-discipline, ranging from the large stage races – he added – However as we speak the feminine universe has forcefully entered this world and it’s a success for everybody: IOC, CONI, worldwide and nationwide federations”. Malagò then concluded: “It will likely be good to return to Paris the place we gained the primary gold in biking with Enrico Brusoni”. There will probably be 13 archers, together with women and men, Olympic and Paralympic, in Paris ’24. The 2 groups arewere introduced this morning on the Salone d’Onore del Coni within the presence of Giovanni Malagò, the #1 of the Cip, Luca Pancalli, the president of Fitarco, Mario Scarzella, and the top of the Division of Sport, Flavio Siniscalchi. “There’s a lengthy love story between archery and the Coni – Malagò started – There’s a unbelievable integration between men and women and now you have got forcefully returned to being protagonists on this planet of 5 Rings. Right this moment it’s more and more troublesome to qualify, however we now have nice expectations for Paris. I’ll instantly put a little bit of strain, however I do know nicely the dedication of the Federation. To beat Tokyo, archery can be wanted”. Due to this fact, there will probably be 4 Olympic archers (3 males and 1 girl) who will compete within the stadium arrange on the Esplanade des Invalides with the opposite 124 archers who will symbolize 54 nations on the Video games. Among the many Italians current had been Mauro Nespoli, Olympic gold medalist in London 2012 and particular person silver medalist in Tokyo, in addition to Alessandro Paoli and Federico Musolesi within the males’s class and Chiara Rebagliati within the ladies’s class. The Paralympic staff was bigger, with 9 archers (3 males and 9 ladies). “There may be the attention that each one the Federations, together with yours, have been put in the very best situations to do their finest – defined Pancalli – The appointment is a kind of that can’t be missed, however we’re a household and we may also be through the days in Paris the place we’re aiming for vital outcomes. The bar has been raised with Tokyo”. The conclusions had been then left to Scarzella who thanked Coni, Cip and army sports activities teams.

“Rose Gold”, a e-book for profitable ladies, from Ondina Valla to Antonella Palmisano

A e-book to inform the story of the ladies who introduced Italy to the Olympic podium, but additionally a strategy to retrace the feminine levels of the Italian sports activities historical past. The e-book “Oro rosa”, written by Marco Lollobrigida, printed by Rai Libri and with a preface by the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, was introduced in Rome, on the Cpo Giulio Onesti. “Girls’s sport has emancipated itself over time. After I began, I used to be the one lady in class who performed sports activities. Right this moment, understanding that Arianna Errigo would be the flag bearer is a supply of delight”, stated Valentina Vezzali, current on the presentation along with Antonella Bellutti, Olympic monitor biking champion, Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò and Giovanni Malagò. From Ondina Valla, Olympic champion within the 80-meter hurdles and the primary Italian to win a gold medal on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Video games, to Sara Simeoni, Giovanna Trillini, Valentina Vezzali, Federica Pellegrini, Antonella Palmisano and lots of others, the writer traces the tales of champions, but additionally private ones. “I wished to inform the story of all the ladies who broke information in a male atmosphere”, concludes Lollobrigida.