Tokyo 2020. Waiting for Myles, the overseas fighter

Waiting for Myles, the overseas fighter.

The party does not subside, the Olympic medals of Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti have inflamed the Olympic spirit of San Marino and now, partly because we had fun and partly because we really believe in it, we are all ready to ask Myles Nazem Amine Mularoni to give us another sleepless night and another Olympic joy. Superstitious of every order, stop the spells, the first not wanting to talk about superstition is the same fighter who, on the contrary, says so proudly and without hiding: “I’m here for a medal”. The wrestler speaks with knowledge of the facts, the world ranking has seen him oscillate for some months between the third and fourth place and the most recent previous ones say of an athlete from the top levels of international competitions: silver at the European Championships in Rome in 2020, bronze at those of Warsaw a year later. Bronze in Minsk at the European Games on his first outing with the CONS uniform and fourth place at the 2019 World Cup in Nur-Sultan.

Much of the path of Myles Nazem Amine Mularoni, a mother from San Marino and a Lebanese father, born and raised in Michigan, could depend on the value of the opponent that the draw scheduled for tomorrow morning (at 7 hours in San Marino) will put against him. The direct match draw includes the round of 16 and quarter-finals in the morning of August 4 (for those who follow from San Marino after 2 am on the night between 3 and 4) then any semi-finals a few hours later. The following day the repechage (the losing draw matches) and in the afternoon of August 5th (the San Marino morning) the eventual finals.

Myles Nazem Amine Mularoni’s competitions will be held at the Makuhari Messe Hall which until a few days ago hosted the fencing and judo competitions, a huge exhibition area used as a sports facility for the Olympic Games.

The specialty of the San Marino player is free wrestling, his category that of 86kg. Wrestling is considered the oldest sport, a battle between two athletes without the use of any tools (not even the clothes that in judo, for example, act as a hold for the moves), in free wrestling the use of all parts is allowed. of the body (in the Greco-Roman wrestling, on the other hand, only the upper limbs can be used) to reach the final goal, that is to “pin” the opponent, making sure that he rests both shoulders on the mat.

Curiosity: Myles’ grandfather, Nazem, competed in the Olympic Games in Rome 60 defending the colors of Lebanon, the coach Sergei Beloglazov is instead a sacred monster of wrestling, he, a Russian, even won the Olympics, gold in Moscow 80 and gold in Seoul 88. From 81 to 87 he won six world golds.

From our correspondent ALAN GASPERONI