• Federica Pellegrini's last final: I swam my last 200 with a smile on my face

  • Saber, men's team is in the final in Tokyo 2020

  • Tennis, Camila Giorgi comes out in the quarters: beaten by Svitolina

  • Boxing, safe medal for Irma Testa in the 54-57 category

  • Tokyo 2020: Giorgia Bordignon silver in weightlifting, 64 kg category

  • Rowing.

    Bruno Rosetti first blue positive for covid

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28 July 2021 "It was a beautiful journey, many years of strokes: I enjoyed it from start to finish": seventh place in the 200 freestyle and farewell to the Olympics for

Federica Pellegrini

, protagonist of the extraordinary feat of competing in her fifth consecutive Olympic final. In the tank of the Aquatics Center in Tokyo 2020 she did the last dance round: "Last dance, baby", as she wrote herself in an Instagram post just before the competition.



Federica Pellegrini leaves the Olympic stage with the title of world record holder. Its record of 1.52.98 - set 12 years ago. just think that the new Olympian Ariarne Titmus won with an Olympic record of 1.53.50, far from that record. He gave Italy an Olympic gold and silver medal, five golds in the world championships and one in the short course world championships, seven golds in the Europeans and another seven in the short course and a large number of silvers and bronzes. In addition, he improved the world distance record 11 times. "In these days I realized that I had given everything and took everything I could take. So there is nothing else to say," he said, also formalizing the engagement with his coach, the 39-year-old Matteo Giunta from Pesaro. "If Matteo hadn't been there I probably would have stopped a few years ago ".



Irma Testa in history

Great day for another athlete too.

Irma Testa

gave the first historic medal to Italy in women's boxing. The blue in the quarter-finals of the 54-57 kg category beat Canadian Caroline Veyre 5-0 on points: she will return to the ring on Saturday 31 July for the semifinal against the Filipino Nesthy Petecio. In case of defeat it will be bronze otherwise the final is scheduled for Tuesday 3 August. "This achievement is dedicated to my teacher and to the whole Italian women's boxing movement," she said.



Tennis, out of Fognini and Giorgi

Camila Giorgi's


dream ends at the Italian dawn

at the Tokyo 2020 Games: the blue left the scene in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tennis tournament that is being played on the concrete courts of the Ariake Tennis Park in the capital of Japan. Fabio Fognini also struggles and puts his heart into it, but on a hot Central it is the Russian Daniil Medvedev who takes the pass for the quarters. On Court 1 Giorgi, 29 years old from Macerata, n.61 WTA, rookie at the Olympics, lost for 6-4, 6-4, in just over an hour and a half of the match, to Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, n.6 of the ranking and 4 of the seeding, missing the goal of becoming the first Italian tennis player in the semifinals at the Games. However positive the balance of the Marche in these Games where she became the

third Italian ever among the best eight at the Olympics

after Raffaella Reggi (Seoul 1988) and Francesca Schiavone (Athens 2004).



On the Central

Fognini

fought

, for the second time he landed in the third round (eighths) in an Olympics, but it was not enough. The 34-year-old from Arma di Taggia, n.31 ATP and 15th seeded, after beating the Japanese Yuichi Sugita, n.119 in the ranking, and having repeated himself against the Belarusian Egor Gerasimov, n.79 in the ranking, has sold for 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, to the Russian Medvedev, n.2 in the ranking and seeding. For Fognini it was the third Olympics: he reached the round of 16 also in Rio 2016, stopped by Andy Murray (after being 3-0 ahead in the decisive set) launched towards the gold bis, while in London 2012 he lost on his debut against Novak Djokovic.



Watch out for the saber

The blue saber team beat Hungary 45-43 and qualified for the final. Another medal will come from Italian fencing, gold or silver. Berre ', Curatoli and Montano won their assault 45-43 with an amazing last assault by Curatoli against the three-time Olympic champion, the Hungarian Aron.



Windsurf, duel for gold

Fourth day of regattas for Tokyo 2020 sailing in Enoshima. In Windsurf RS: X Male continues the battle at the top between the Dutch Kiran Badloe and the blue from Civitavecchia Mattia Camboni, respectively champion and European and world vice-champion in office. 



Rosetti positive at Covid, but bronze in four without

First case of positivity to Covid in the Italia Team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: an hour before the race of 4 without, in which he should have participated,

Bruno Rosetti

was stopped 

. The team, with Marco di Costanzo in place of Rosetti, took the bronze. 



The bronze of Burdisso

Bronze in the final of the 200 butterfly also for

Federico Burdisso. 

With his medal, Italy fills the butterfly gap: a blue had never been on the Olympic podium in this specialty. While Alessandro Miressi flew to the final of the 100 free style, finishing third in the semifinal which instead sanctioned the elimination of Thomas Ceccon. In the other rowing competitions held in the Sea Forest Waterway basin, fifth place for the 4 for male pairs, fourth for the 4 for women.



Disappointment in the pool by

Simona Quadarella

, only fifth in the 1,500 freestyle won by the American Katie Ledecky. 



Cycling


Filippo Ganna

ended the cycling time trial at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 5th place. The gold went to the Slovenian Primoz Roglic, who dominated the race finishing in 55'04 "19. Silver to the Belgian Tom Dumoulin in 56'05" 58, bronze to the Australian Rohan Dennis in 56'08 "09. Ganna he finished in 56'09 "93, less than two seconds from the podium.