At the 2028 games the light weights will not be there: so Gabriel will support Niels on the senior boat. The specialty medal is missing from London 2012
“I’m sorry that the light weight category will no longer be part of the Olympics program but the positive side is that I will no longer have to wake up in the morning with the thinking of the scale as well as in the minutes before a competition I will not have to fear to be out of weight”. Gabriel Soares thus tells his second remail life. The 28 -year -old born in Foz Do IGUACU (Brazil), but raised in Bellagio, for years has been one of the best light weights internationally. On the first Olympic occasion in Paris – together with Oppo – he conquered the silver in the double “light”. But after the final one the curtain has dropped on the category to make room for the Coastal Rowing – the rowing at sea – with the test of the Beach Sprint. A decision would have broken the dreams of many athletes, not for Gabriel and for the current boat companion Niels Torre. The 72.5 kg of weight that they cannot overcome have become a mirage. At the table there are no more restrictions and the muscle mass has grown conspicuously so much that it can admit without virgin “compared to a year ago, at the Paris Olympic final I put on 13 kilograms” underlines Soares.
challenge
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Descended by boat Stefano Oppo -the Sardinian tank top took a year on the active break by participating in some beach Sprint event -, the technical director Antonio Colamonici promoted Gabriel Soares and Niels Torre on the Double Leve and the first results were surprising. At the European Championships the first comforting signal with 4th place, in the World Cup in Varese a new ring with 2nd place (“These results were not obvious to the first season -says Soares -. For me and for Niels the initial goal was to stay in the Senior Azzurro group and instead the technical director immediately gave us confidence and we understood that we could do it”). In this weekend there was the passage to the Italian Senior championships defending different colors: Soares remo for the Navy, Tower for the carabinieri (2nd in the single). The last stage of 2025 will be in September with the Shanghai World Cup (China) but looking to the future the double blue has embarked on a long journey to Los Angeles 2028 in a specialty that does not give medals to Italy from the London 2012 games. A complex road starting from the category. Because the two blues are returning from a career in the “light weights”. “For sure we must still grow physically-says Torre, of a Dutch mother-because we find crews with a tonnage greater than ours but starting from 70-72 kg we are already over 80. We will not have their own strength, however what matters for us is to maintain a good weight-power relationship”. Torre, like Soares, has never had doubts about the choice to be undertaken in view of Los Angeles: “Traditional rowing fascinates me more – underlines Niels, a new graduate in Food Sciences -, certainly participating in an Olympiad is important but being able to do it in the traditional discipline would have a greater value”.
inheritance
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Soares-Torre are therefore committed to carrying out a four-year project aware of having inherited the witness from champions who made the arrmo great. The last to climb the Olympic podium were Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti. “It was a formidable double -recalls Soares -. Of Romano I have a beautiful memory. At 19 I was at my first blue experiences, he towards the end of his career. He taught me a lot: a warrior with an extraordinary ethical of work. It will be an honor to chase the results he obtained”. The “light” boat is ready to amaze and conquer heavy medals. Starting with the next Chinese World Cup.
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