Wednesday, April 27, 2016

bearer pilgrims. “Crowning of a career” – La Gazzetta dello Sport

after 100 days will bring her the Italian flag during the opening ceremony of the Games in Rio de Janeiro. CONI chose Federica Pellegrini. Everyone knew it, but now it’s official. This was decided by the Executive Council at the Foro Italico, 300 meters from the pool in which the blue won two gold medals at the World Championships in Rome 2009. Besides the Spinea is a girl that the Olympics gives the you a long time, since he was only sixteen, silver was in Athens, the first gold of Beijing and London disappointment. Already, London, as they are away now those two fifth places, but above all the feeling that a story was over between promises, not respected, of sabbaticals, a new technical guide to search and a future in the balance. Instead, Riecco Federica. You again. Popular as ever. A bit ‘of tattoos of tears, but also European and world medals more. Ready to bring the tricolor and three days later, the battery 200 freestyle, to fall for yet another adventure.


by mattarella – Federica Pellegrini and Martina Caironi, Italian flag bearer at Paralympics, will receive the flag from the hands of the President of the Republic Mattarella 22 June.

curtain – the Pilgrims was officially invested with the role in the course of the Board at the end of the morning. The Venetian champion, present in Rome, said a few words to the members of the Olympic sports governance. Curtain to a passage. Federica: “… my career has been full of ups and downs.” “Tell me what were the low!”, The Malago said, adding: “It was a choice by popular acclaim.” Pellegrini then talked a bit ‘of the future: “Tokyo 2020? Do not decide right away, it will be a very difficult choice. I am very excited: the sport has always been my life, my passion. And what I want to bring Rio driving this Italian team has the will to fight, to never give up no matter what. the 2012 controversy made me very badly. Because I am very patriotic. For me to decline the opportunity to carry the banner was a rather logical, perhaps to the experts it was not, but the day after the ceremony i had the 400-meter freestyle, one of my most important races. This time i do not do the 400, i will relay that is less expensive. for the first time on 4 He will participate at the Olympic games opening ceremony. it seems absurd to say it, but the swimming competitions begin right away. ” CONI president has also had words for Flavia Pennetta: “I would like it to Rio 2016. I’m working for that. I have a religious respect for the choice of Flavia, but I still have a hope.”

“cROWNING oF a cAREER” – the first words of Federica: “and ‘the culmination of years and years of career events of major defeats and huge victories, moments where I lost and moments where I found myself or others … where I lost someone important! Despite everything every time I go to bed I tell myself it was worth it because I have always known how to fight, never give up, ready to start all the next morning. ” These are the words written by Federica Pellegrini on his Instagram profile after the announcement by the cones that the Venetian swimmer will be the blue flag bearer at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

fifth woman – Never choice was simpler. They had also pursued other potential candidates, by Tania Cagnotto to Clemente Russo, but it seemed an attempt to build alternatives to protect at least some ‘of uncertainty. Actually Federica and the flag had already promised for months, between complicit smiles Giovanni Malago. The Pilgrims and the eleventh woman-bearer, the fifth in Summer Olympics after the gymnast Miranda Cicognani in Helsinki in 1952, the high jumper Sara Simeoni in Los Angeles 1984, fiorettiste Giovanna Trillini and Valentina Vezzali in Atlanta in 1996 and in London in 2012.

first swimmer – For swimming, diving apart (Dibiasi in Montreal 1976, the only one so far from Fin), it is the first choice the whole story. An acknowledgment to the long Federica Olympic history, but also the primacy of discipline, in the blue Olympic group that will arrive in Rio this summer. Ranked controls alpine skiing with nine-bearer, while fencing has seven athletics are. The first choice for women was to Oslo in 1952, when the Winter Games the flag was carried by Fides Romanin.



Valerio Piccioni

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