Goggia and Brignone, Fontana and Ghiotto. Our national team dreams: the record of the 20 medals of Lillehammer 1994 is not impossible
The forty medals at the Paris Olympic Games have confirmed the quality leap in Italy, which must now be considered among the world powers of sport. The Tokyo Supernova, exploded on the night of August 1, 2021 with the golds of Marcell Jacobs in the 100 and of Gimbo Tamberi in the above, was the genesis of an era that in France proposed new protagonists, by the girls of volleyball ad Alice D’Amato, from Thomas Ceccon to Nicolò Martinenghi to the Queen of the Mari couple, composed of Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti. Just to name a few. Twelve golds, the ninth place in the medal, a bench among the adults from which to look with confidence to the other half of Olympia, the winter one. Our sky is full of stars ready to illuminate the Olympics of our house. A year is missing in Milan-Cortina 2026 and Italy can’t wait to see them shine.
Ambitious Italy
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It will be the twenty -fifth edition of the winter games, the third hosted by our country after Cortina 1956 and Turin 2006. In Beijing, in 2022, the Italian medals were 17: 2 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronzes. The best ever after the magical Lillehammer of 1994, when the blue expedition dragged by the bottom conquered 20 podiums (7 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronzes), games that went down in history also for the amazement of the Norwegian masters beaten in the 4×10 kilometer relay, the Their garden of the house, by Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta and Silvio Fauner. To that company, one of the most beautiful of Italian sport, the dreams of Italian athletes who will have the privilege of representing their country are aligned. There are at least ten that for ranking, charisma and talent can legitimately look to Milan-Cortina with great ambitions. Let’s start with those who have already opened the treasure chest to five circles such as Goggia, Fontana, Moioli and the couple Constantini-Mosaner. Sofia belongs to the ranks of the champions, one of the queens of the white circus of recent years. His rivalry with Federica Brignone, who in Milan-Cortina chases the first Olympic gold after a silver and two bronzes, recalls the most heated competitive oppositions. They estimate themselves without loving each other and do not hide it, as Saronni and Moser did. The Bergamo area, unlike faith, has already put herself gold, in PyeongChang in 2018 (before her the blue descent had triumphed with Zeno Colò but it was 1952 …) and four years later in Beijing was The silver also arrived, torn from the bite of bad luck materialized in the form of a serious injury 23 days after the races.
Big women
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By Arianna Fontana we all remember the face as a girl, Olympic bronze (in relay) at even 16 years old, the youngest Italian ever. And we all know the sequence of features to the games that guaranteed them 11 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronzes) for a legendary story that has yet to see the last page written. Michela Moioli shares the Bergamo origins and the palmares with games with Sofia Goggia: a gold, that of 2018 and a silver four years later. And how Sofia aims to do trio. And then there is Stefania Constantini, gold in the mixed curling double together with Amos Mosaner in Beijing 2022, the first historic medal for Italy in the discipline: the cheering of Cortina could convince the blue duo to rejoin to live a second fairy tale.
How many talents
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Ready and ready to amaze. Like Lisa Vittozzi, who has decided to devote himself exclusively to recovery from annoying troubles to the back to the appointment by giving up the Biathlon World Cup (won last year), discipline where Tommaso Giacomel can collect the fruits of his talent. , already blossomed with three world medals in the archive. And then there is the blue background, which always looks to his lighthouse: after two silver at the Federico Pellegrino games he would deserve to climb a step more up for the constancy and seriousness demonstrated throughout his path. It will not be easy but as always the Aosta Valley will be among the first to tough. From the ice, called Arianna Fontana, we expect great things. The confirmation of Francesca Lollobrigida, silver in the 3000 and bronze in the Mass Start in Beijing and the leap in quality (already manifest) of the dance of Charlene Guignard-Marco Fabbri, three times European champions. Not to mention Davide Ghiotto’s explosion, who has recently crumbled the record on 10,000 speed skating. Talent to sell, desire to win. To illuminate the sky of Italy.
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