Skeet shooting, Bacosi silver in women's skeet

2021-07-26T07:37:34.962Z

The 38-year-old Italian Diana Bacosi won the silver medal in the Tokyo 2020 women's Skeet competition, won by the American Amber English. "I was hoping for gold, to repeat Rio, silver arrived but I gave everything I had and I'm happy with that". Diana Bacosi said this after the skeet match, and a hug to her coach Andrea Benelli and the president of Fitav Luciano Rossi. "I gave continuity to my performances - says Bacosi -, and in the end I lost the gold for a target: in sport it can happen" "I am very excited, it is a medal that I want to dedicate to all Italians, because it was a very difficult year for everyone: the pandemic has brought us to our knees but we, as a people, have been able to get up again, in life as in sport ", said Diana Bacosi. "The best moment of the day was when I realized that a medal was safe - says the blue shooter -. In this year I had sporting difficulties, but my coach Andrea Benelli pulled me out of the black moment and brought me here, and to this silver. "