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Arjola Trimi won the gold medal in the 100 freestyle swimming category S3 at the Tokyo Paralympics. This is the second individual gold medal of the 34-year-old from Milan (after yesterday's 50 backstroke), who today preceded the American Leanne Smith and the Russian Iuliia Shishova. Immediately afterwards, Italy triumphed again with Carlotta Gilli,...

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With the silver medal in the women's foil team, Italy's Paralympic medals in Tokyo rise to 27: Simone Barlaam's gold in the 50 sl (cat. S9), Arjola Trimi's gold in the 50 backstroke (cat. S3) and the women's 4x100 sl relay team finished second behind the United States: Xenia Palazzo, Vittoria Bianco, Giulia Terzi and Alessia Scortechini were promot...

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Bebe Vio is still golden. At the end of an extraordinary day and a dominated final - even on 7-4 she had to replace the prosthesis of her left arm - the Italian flag bearer beat 15-9 the Chinese Zhou Jingjing, defeated 5 years ago in the final at Rio 2016. Bebe was untouchable: six successes out of six in the rounds, then the assaults without histo...

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Rochester soccer history buffs certainly will appreciate one entry in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualifying round – the Italian American Sport Club Boom. The IASC captured the 1963 U.S. Amateur Cup title and that team’s success led to the formation of the Rochester Lancers. The Lancers competed in the American Soccer League from 1967-69 and then...

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Italy got two more Paralympic medals, a silver and a bronze, on Friday to take their tally up to 13 medals: four golds, five silvers and four bronzes. Carlotta Gilli snagged another silver in the S13 (partially sighted) 400m freestyle, following a gold and a silver for the 20-year-old swimmer from Moncalieri near Turin. Sara Morganti won the bronze...

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Italy won two more swimming golds at the Tokyo Paralympics Thursday taking their total to four golds and 10 medals in all. Stefano Raimondi won the 100m breaststroke in the new SB9 category after Francesco Bocciardo got his second gold in the S5 100m freestyle after winning the 200m on Wednesday. Italy also got two more silvers with Carlotta Gilli...

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Luna Rossa is the name of a beautiful song written in 1950, but is also the name of a group of sailing vessels deployed successfully by the Italian trade union “Luna Rossa challenge” created by Patrizio Bertelli. The first Luna Rossa was put into water in 1999, and since then many different boats with the same name have followed, in different saili...

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A gold and a silver in the final of the 100 butterfly S13 at the Paralympics in Tokyo, a gold and a silver in the 200 freestyle. After the first medal (bronze for Bettella in the 100 backstroke swimming category S1), here is also the first gold, signed by Carlotta Gilli (category S13), with a Paralympic record in 28"79, and the silver of Alessia Be...

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It was just before 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning in April 1987. I entered  the ‘Maroons Soccer Club,’ officially known as the ‘Italo-American Soccer Club – Maroons,’ through the back door. A handful of older men sipping on their morning cappuccinos greeted me. Some looked inquisitively at this stranger while most nodded a polite good morning. I took a...

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“No customer or dealer has ever asked us to make a hybrid or electric car,” says Horacio Pagani. He is the man behind and the namesake of one of the world’s most exclusive supercars (starting at €3.5 million, excluding VAT). “But developments are moving fast. That’s why we’ve launched a project that should lead to an all-electric car. We think we c...

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