In less than ten days the Olympics will begin in Paris (the opening ceremony along the Seine on the 26th, the first races on the 24th). And all of Italy is already in a frenzy for what is the event of the year. Also because a truly record-breaking team will show up at the five-ring event: as the president of the CONI Giovanni Malagò wanted, the goal was to exceed at least 400 athletes and so it was, given that there will be 403 Italians (209 men and 194 women) thus surpassing the previous record achieved four years ago in Tokyo (384). The disciplines will slightly decrease, going from thirty-six to thirty-four, also due to the absence of softball and karate from the Games, but above all due to the failure to qualify in basketball. Break dancing will instead make its first appearance, as will badminton. The largest group is that of athletics (82 called up), followed by rowing with 37 athletes and swimming with 36.
But Tokyo 2020 is the new watershed for Italian Olympic sport, with a record number of podiums that has neither been equalled nor surpassed since Rome 1960: 40 medals in 19 disciplines.
And this time too the forecasts are promising. In fact, the latest projections in the virtual medal table of Nielsen’s Gracenote speak of an Italy that would close the Paris Games with 47 medals and in eighth place overall, with 12 golds.
Wanting to reconfirm himself above all is the Italian captain Gianmarco Tamberi in the high jump, but also Marcell Jacobs in the 100 meters and in the 4X100. Also running for a summer as protagonists are Larissa Iapichino in the long jump, Sofia Raffaeli in artistic gymnastics, Simona Quadarella and Gregorio Paltrinieri in swimming, not to mention Jannik Sinner and Jasmine Paolini in tennis, who could give us a medal that has been missing for 100 years. Giovanni Pellielo (skeet shooting) is also dreaming, at his eighth Olympics. We will not be there once again with football, but for team sports the hopes are placed in water polo, but above all in volleyball, men’s and women’s, and in fencing.
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