I dives blues are already looking to the future, which translates to Los Angeles 2028 which will close an intense four-year period, in which the European specialty championships will also return.
The path towards the next Olympic event in the States is traced by the technical director of the national diving team Oscar Bertone which has planned an extremely extended collegiate event, scheduled for the Federal Center of Rome at the Olympic Preparation Center in Acquacetosa from Wednesday 6th to Saturday 9th November.
All the protagonists of the recent Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be there, with the exception of Sarah Jodoin di Maria who will remain in common training in Australia until February, and the best youth which obviously includes Matteo Santoro, European vice champion for one and three meters in Belgrade 2024 and world silver in the mixed synchronized three-metre springboard paired with Chiara Pellacani in Doha 2024.
I am 23 those called up: Elena Bertocchi (Army/Canottieri Milano), Stefano Belotti (Fiamme Gialle/Bergamo Tuffi), Maia Biginelli (Fiamme Oro), Matilde Borello (Blu 2006), Davide Barberi (Carlo Dibiasi), Francesco Casalini (Navy/Bergamo Diving), Matteo Cafiero (Fiamme Oro/Canottieri Milano), Simone Conte (MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Giorgia De Sanctis (Fiamme Oro), Riccardo Giovannini (Fiamme Oro), Andreas Sargent Larsen (Fiamme Oro), Lorenzo Marsaglia ( Navy/CC Aniene), Matilde Marzetti (CC Aniene), Valerio Mosca (MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Elettra Neroni (Carlo Dibiasi), Elisa Pizzini (Fiamme Gialle/CC Aniene), Irene Pesce (MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Chiara Pellacani (Fiamme Gialle/MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Raffaele Pelligra (MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Matteo Santoro (Marina Militare/MR Sport F.lli Marconi), Eduard Timbretti Gugiu (Blu 2006), Giovanni Tocci (Army/Aqa) and Julian Verzotto (CC Aniene).
The staff is completed by the technicians Emiliano Boldacchini, Michele Benedetti, Francesco Dell’Uomo, Claudio Leone, Nicola Marconi, Tommaso Marconi, Benedetta Molaioli, Alice Palmieri, Davide Pasinetti and Dario Scola, the doctor Matteo Catananti, the nutritionist Giovanni De Francesco, the psychologist Paolo Benini and the athletic trainers Marcello Coniglio, Silvia Scatola and Adele Sciullo.
The words of the technical director Oscar Bertone: “We start again after the excellent results of the Paris Olympics. The objective is to grow further and improve. This college will serve as an incentive for the elderly not to give up and for the young people to gain experience and take example from the more experienced. In short, from now until the Games Los Angeles Olympics 2028 the doors of the national team remain open to many athletes. What is certain is that young people will have to modify their program and make it increase in coefficient, to compete at absolute levels. In perspective, not in the long term, the goal is recover ground from the nations that are ahead of us and distance ourselves even further from those that we have put behind us in recent years: I am optimistic, because there is the possibility of working with guys who already have a good base”.
