The blue performs a masterpiece. He lands at 8.39 (personal primacy), exceeds the Gayle Jamaican and the Chinese Shi and writes his name in the history of Italian sport
Mattia Furlani, the world is yours! The blue in Tokyo takes a masterpiece, yet another of his young but incredible career: he is golden in the long jump, with 8.39, his personal record. The 20 -year -old athlete puts Gayle (one with 8.69 of staff) and the Chinese Shi behind Jamaican. In a creepy race.
the race
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Furlani begins his race with a null. The entry speed is crazy, but the run -up stammering. Meanwhile, the Jamaican gayle square 8,33 and runs away. Mattia does not get upset, he talks to his mother Khaty Seck who is his coach. You have to fix the automatisms, “I know, I know what I have to do …”, he said to himself. The second attempt of blue is fundamental, an 8.13 that puts him safely and makes him overcome the “cut”. Now it can be pushed. The third is another null, but it is there. Little is missing. Something is changing. Furlani believes it. In the fourth jump the flight stands out: 8.22. But it is still down from the podium. Calm, calm, calm. Here we are there. Because the masterpiece is coming: 8.39 to the fifth test! Personal Best centered (a centimeter of improvement), in the most important race of the year: the champions can be seen from this: they exceed their limits when the pressure is maximum and the risk of failing is higher. But Mattia does not know the word failure. The opponents, gayle with 8.34, the Chinese Shi with 8.33 are on the carpet. It is the blow of the ko. And in fact, in the last round of jumps, everyone gives up. Mattia is on the roof of the world!
winning
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And at just 20 years old, the blue puts another medal that weighs on the bulletin board. Over the past two years he has collected a silver at the Glasgow indoor world championships, then another silver at the European Championships in Rome (8.38 Under 20 world record), and still bronze at the Paris games, silver at the Indoor European Championships in Holland, gold at the World Cup in China. And today, the most prestigious victory that makes him enter the history of Italian sport by law. Chapeau!
between tears
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“I don’t know if it is real, until I hear the hymn I don’t believe it – Mattia comments on the Rai microphones with a voice broken by the emotion -. I did something magical. We managed the race in a perfect way, we adjusted jump after jump. I thank mom, she remained lucid and concentrated. I thank everyone, for bringing me here – he adds now in the tears -. Up to two years I dreamed of them. My sister Erika who is pregnant. And all my staff, my brother, my brother and my girlfriend. Find it another phenomenon, so!
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