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The 2024 Paris Olympic Games was a great success for Italy, despite numerous unforeseen obstacles and a bit of bad luck. The final result is 40 medals, like the record for the 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics, but with two more gold medals. We are ninth in the Olympic medal table starting with gold medals, but seventh in the total number of medals won. We...

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The Paris 2024 women's volleyball tournament smiles on the Bel Paese: never beyond the quarterfinals in two decades, on the five-ring throne after overcoming the hurdle of the first knockout round. After three finals lost by the men (Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004 and Rio 2016), the girls dominate the first final act played at the Games and make the Mam...

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Real-life couple Rossella Fiamingo and Gregorio Paltrinieri will be Italy’s flag bearers for the Paris Games closing ceremony on Sunday, the Italian Olympic Committee announced. Fiamingo won a team fencing gold in Paris to add to her silver medal from Rio de Janeiro and bronze from Tokyo. Paltrinieri won silver and bronze in the 1,500- and 800-mete...

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Italy of cycling is golden! Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini take the top step of the podium in the track cycling madison, winning what can be seen as a historic medal. The two blues are the authors of a race to be framed, in which they manage to collect 17 points in the sprints and another 20 points by winning a lap over all the opponents (th...

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Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti are Olympic bi-champions in the Nacra 17 mixed, sailing. The Italian duo finished in 2nd place in the Medal Race won by France, but with no medal hopes. After yesterday's long wait with no wind, the Italians did well to keep their concentration high. After the first upwind side of the Medal Race, with wind still drop...

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Shooters Diana Bacosi and Gabriele Rossetti of Italy defeated Austen Smith and Vincent Hancock of the United States 45-44 to win gold in the skeet mixed team as the event made its Olympic debut here on Monday. Rossetti, individual winner at Rio 2016, and Bacosi led in the qualification with 149 hits earlier on Monday, equaling the world record. The...

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Italian gymnast Alice D'Amato emerged as the surprise champion on the balance beam at the Paris Olympics on Monday after favorite Simone Biles surprisingly fell off the 10cm wide apparatus during the final to finish out of the medals. With a clean routine devoid of any major errors, D'Amato earned 14.366 points, enough to win her gold. Zhou Yaqin o...

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Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini win the seventh gold medal of the Italian expedition to Paris 2024, the first ever in tennis. The Italians beat their opponents Andreeva/Shnaider in the final on a comeback, match tiebreak: 2-6 6-1 10-7. At 37 years and 97 days, Errani completes the doubles Career Grand Slam after winning every Grand Slam test, paire...

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Italy’s Marta Maggetti grabbed Olympic gold in the women’s windsurfing final on Saturday, staging a comeback in the final stages of the high-speed race with a smart strategic split. Maggetti, 28, pumped her fist as she crossed the line and then leapt off her board into the Mediterranean in celebration. The Italian’s break away from her rivals in th...

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Roncadelle, a town of 9200 people just outside Brescia in Lombardy, will not easily forget this August 1. Two golds in quick succession. First Giovanni De Gennaro in slalom canoeing and, soon after, Alice Bellandi in 78 kg judo. Both from Roncadelle, both able to propel this small, wealthy, industrious town into Olympic glory. An area of small and...

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