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Italy closed out the European U20 Athletics Championships in style, topping the overall medal table and confirming its place as a powerhouse in youth athletics. The Azzurri finished with an impressive 14 medals: 6 gold, 3 silver, and 5 bronze - eight of them earned in just two hours on the final day of competition. The highlight of the afternoon ca...

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For years, Italian sports lost out on promising talent. Not due to a lack of skill, motivation, or dedication, but because of the law. Thousands of young athletes who grew up in Italy - many of whom were born there or arrived as small children to foreign parents - were denied the chance to represent the Azzurri in international competitions. Why? B...

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Italy has claimed its second consecutive European Athletics Team Championship title, confirming its dominance on the continental stage. Since the introduction of the competition's new national team format in 2009, only Germany and Poland had previously managed to win back-to-back titles. Now, Italy joins that elite group, building on the momentum f...

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2024 was a memorable year for Italian sports, thanks to the great achievements of the Italian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Jannik Sinner, who won 73 matches out of the 79 played, won two Masters and became the first tennis player in history capable of winning the Davis Cup and Atp Finals in the same year, ending the s...

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Alessia Succo, in her first year as a student, who turned 16 two days ago and attends her second year of high school in Turin (Piedmont, Italy), took the satisfaction of achieving the best world U18 performance ever in the specialty by beating by 3 hundredths the 8.10 sealed in 2017 by France's Cyréna Samba-Mayela. Her previous performances had alr...

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Rino Tommasi, a true monument of Italian sports journalism, passed away on January 8. The great Rino, born 90 years ago in Verona, was for decades the most famous voice and television face of boxing and tennis matches. He was a living encyclopedia, in the days when the Internet and Wikipedia did not exist he could recount by heart anecdotes, data,...

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Evanston’s Caroline Colianne was named the first Special Olympian to join the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday. “For them to recognize what our athletes bring to the world is fantastic,” said Peter Beale-DelVecchio, president and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics Illinois. “So often they’re told, ‘You can’t do thi...

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Italy topped the medal table at the European Under-18 Athletics Championships: seven golds, three silvers, five bronzes and a total of 15 laurels taken home by the Azzurri. The Azzurri widely outdistanced Poland and Czechia (four titles apiece), while Germany (3) and France (2) lagged even further behind. Our national team demonstrated a genuine ov...

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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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More  medals for the Azzurri on the final day of the European Athletics Championships in Rome, starting with gold for the men's 4x100, with Melluzzo, Jacobs, Patta and Tortu dominating from the first to the last meter and finishing at 37″82, a new European season record. Great silver for the men's 4x400 (Meli, Sito, Scotti, Aceti). Also very good L...

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