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You could tell from their reactions just how much the silver medal meant to the Italian gymnasts. Tears, embraces and hands over their mouths in disbelief. It was a fitting response to winning your country’s first Olympic medal in the women’s gymnastics team event for 96 years, which is precisely what Manila Esposito, Alice D’Amato, Angela Andeoli,...

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The fans at fencing are among the loudest and most passionate at the Paris Olympics, especially when France is challenging for a gold medal. They usually leave disappointed. Italy overcame a passionate “Marseillaise”-singing crowd at the Grand Palais to hand France its fourth fencing silver medal of the Games in the women’s team epee Tuesday. Alber...

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Thomas Ceccon said he fulfilled a childhood "dream" by giving Italy their second swimming gold of the Paris Olympics with a thrilling victory in the men's 100m backstroke on Monday. Ceccon won with a time of 52.00 seconds, with China's Xu Jiayu 0.32sec behind for silver and Ryan Murphy of the USA in bronze. The Italian, who was fourth in Tokyo, del...

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Nicolò Martinenghi won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday at the Paris Olympics, thrilling Italian fans and canceling several of the main story lines going into the race. Martinenghi was the bronze medalist in this event in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and won at the world championships earlier this year in Doha. But he was not the expecte...

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Lady Gaga has officially kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. On July 26, Gaga performed the opening number as the world's athletes made their way down the Seine in a parade of boats. Escorted down a grand staircase at Square Barye by a group of men and women carrying dramatic pink feathers, the 38-year-old Italian American singer...

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The gender gap is almost solved: this time there are 194 women versus 209 men. Total: 403 athletes. It's the largest Olympic expedition ever for Italy: here's how the various regions contributed. More athletes from the North, the South is more successful. 36 blue jerseys in Paris were born abroad, not new; in Tokyo 2020 there were even more, 46. Of...

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Full box for Italy. Two years after the next Winter Games, in Milan and Cortina in 2026, it will be able to hang the Olympic rings for a second time. In winter, too. For a smaller event. Meeting on Saturday July 20 in Paris, six days before the opening of the Summer Games, the IOC Executive Board finally decided the question of the next edition of...

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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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The Modena Apennines in Emilia Romagna will be represented, albeit indirectly, at the now upcoming Paris Olympics. Indeed, on the U.S. Decathlon team will be a descendant on his mother's side of the Pasquesi lineage from Pievepelago. He is 31-year-old Zachery 'Zach' Ziemek, born in Itasca (Illinois), son of Victoria Pasquesi and grandson of Anthony...

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Caitlin Clark was snubbed by the 2024 United States women's basketball team roster for the Summer Olympics in Paris, France. But what if Clark chose to play for a different country instead? While that's not going to happen, it's actually a possibility. Clark's mom is Italian.  "I think we can all agree that it would be at least a little funny if Ca...

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