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Federico Pasquali

Federico was born in Rome. Sociologist, communication expert, assistant professor at La Sapienza University, writer and sports journalist. He loves sport, good books, food, wine and Italy.

The emotions that sport can offer are most often unattainable, because sport is synonymous with challenge, with oneself and especially with others. A basket, a goal, a point scored at the last second of a match, or an athlete's victory by a hundredth of a second in an athletic or swimming race, a sprint victory in cycling or an overtaking pass at t...

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On February 14, 2004, the lifeless body of Marco Pantani, widely considered the greatest cyclist of the late last century, was found in a room of a residence in Rimini, the famous tourist resort in Emilia Romagna. Around the end of the last millennium, Pantani was one of the most famous sportsmen in the world, not only in Italy and Europe, where cy...

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Italy closes the Summer Olympic Games once again with an extraordinary result. Like three years ago in Tokyo, the Azzurri won 40 medals in Paris, taking ninth place overall in the medal table, thus fourth in Europe behind France, the organizing nation, the Netherlands and Great Britain. A success that had been announced by the Italian Olympic Commi...

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At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Italy stunned the world by winning 40 medals, a record for the Azzurri since they have been participating in the Olympics. Above all, it amazed with its five victories in athletics, the queen of Olympic sports. From July 26, in Paris, for the third time in history, athletes fr...

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In the more than 100-year history of professional tennis, no Italian man or woman has ever reached number one in the world rankings. Tennis, which came to Italy thanks to a few English gentlemen in the late 1800s who did not want to give up their passion for the game that had become very popular in Anglo-Saxon high society, has been one of the most...

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Athletics is the noblest and purest expression of sport, and its performers, namely the athletes, are as beautiful as can be admired during competitions. Running, jumping and throwing, every competition conveys strong emotions. Then there is also the fascination of a stadium where at the same time there are athletes who pole vault over 6 meters, wh...

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There are sporting feats that become legendary because they are truly extraordinary and unrepeatable. These are not always stories related to exhilarating victories by a great champion or, for example, an underdog athlete or team before a major final that then manages to win an unexpected victory. There are indeed many sporting feats that remain fo...

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There is an Italian girl who for many years has been compared to Queen Atlanna, the character played by Nicole Kidman in Aquaman, the successful film directed by James Wan. Her name is Alessia Zecchini, she is 31 years old, born in Rome, and is a diver by profession. Alessia is a kind of mermaid who descends into the abyss with incredible ease and...

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Gigi Riva left us last January 22, on the threshold of his eightieth birthday. A heart attack stopped the big heart he had causing a real shock to all the Italian people. "Rombo di Tuono," as he was nicknamed by Italy's greatest sports journalist, Gianni Brera, had not only been a great footballer. He was the greatest of all, the most loved by all,...

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The year 2024 will be an extraordinary year for Italian sports with many great events where the Italian athletes will be able to give many satisfactions to the fans. The most eagerly awaited event, of course, is the Paris Olympic Games and the following Paralympic Games, which will offer the greatest sporting spectacle in the world in the summer. A...

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It took 76 years before four Italian tennis players, led by a true tennis legend, first won the Davis Cup, the world's oldest tournament devised by four members of the Harvard University tennis team to challenge the British. And another 47 years to raise to the sky again the famous trophy awarded to the winners, known around the world as the "silve...

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Cycling is a sport that creates real legends because of the epic feats that can be achieved in this tough sport. Everything in cycling is legendary, from the long, grueling tours of more than 2,000 miles such as The Tour de France, The Giro d'Italia, and The Vuelta a España, to the difficult one-day classics such as Paris-Roubaix, Milan-San Remo, t...

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