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Athletics is the noblest and purest expression of sport, and its performers, namely the athletes, are as beautiful as can be admired during competitions. Running, jumping and throwing, every competition conveys strong emotions. Then there is also the fascination of a stadium where at the same time there are athletes who pole vault over 6 meters, wh...

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Three new records in one afternoon. Italian athletes carve them during the Savona International Meeting in the shot put, women's 100 meters and long jump. Leonardo Fabbri, Zaynab Dosso and Mattia Furlani the protagonists of the different disciplines who added another page to Italian sports history. An exciting path ahead of the upcoming Paris 2024...

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A fencing mother of twins and a high-jumping symbol of Italy’s success at the Tokyo Olympics will be the country’s flagbearers at the Paris Games opening ceremony. Arianna Errigo and Gianmarco Tamberi were selected on Monday by the Italian Olympic Committee for the honor at the July 26 ceremony. Errigo, who will be competing in her fourth Olympics,...

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Italy's double Olympic champion sprinter Marcell Jacobs said Friday he will return to competition in the Roma Sprint Festival in the Italian capital on May 18. "I'll be happy if in September I shall have confirmed my two titles, the Olympic one and the European one," said the 29-year-old El Paso born athlete. "At a mental level I'm happy, I'm very...

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Filippo Tortu has decided to go to train in the USA to prepare for the two major competitive events of the season, namely the European Championships in Rome in early June and the Paris 2024 Olympics in August. The Italian sprinter has chosen to travel to the Montverde Academy in Orlando, Florida, in consultation with the Italian Federation. Tortu w...

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Fourteen-year-old Kelly Doualla ran the 60 meters in an astonishing 7.27. That's a sci-fi time for a teenager: a world record for this age, yet another demonstration of the health of Italian athletics, with so many talented youngsters. The Italian beat the 7.30 run by American Tamari Davis in 2018. We are looking at a true prodigy and are probably...

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The guy who won the biggest race in the Olympics now lives in relative obscurity inside a gated community in Florida. Hardly anybody recognizes him. Nobody bothers him. And that suits Marcell Jacobs just fine after dealing with the chaos that surrounded his every move back home in Italy. Because Jacobs, the unheralded sprinter who succeeded Usain B...

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Italy's Olympic champion and showman Gianmarco Tamberi captured the world high jump title on Tuesday, in a dramatic finish against young American JuVaughn Harrison. Tamberi, who famously shared the Olympic title with three-time world champion Mutaz Barshim of Qatar, cleared a world-leading 2.36 metres for gold. He missed at one attempt at 2.40 and...

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Paralympic athletics confirms itself as an all-Italian conquering ground, as happened at the Tokyo 2021 Paralympics. A triumph that always sees the same protagonists, with the same placings. In the 100-meter T63 race at the World Championships in Paris 2023, the podium confirmed the same as seen in some competitions in the last 2 years: Ambra Sabat...

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Olympic high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi paid tribute to "the strongest Italian athletics team ever" after leading his country to its first top Division victory in the Silesia 2023 European Athletics Team Championships. Tamberi, making his first appearance in nine months, played a captain’s role to help his team earn a n elusive title they mis...

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