We have chosen 10. Women, men. Blue athletes. Who have engraved the sporting memory of 2024, with wonderful or forgettable gestures. This is who I am.
Jannik Sinner
A phenomenal season for the number 1 in world tennis. In 2024 he won 92.4% of the games played: a verdict. He won the Australian Open, US Open, Atop Finals, Miami, Cincinnati, Shanghai, Rotterdam and Halle tournaments. Plus the Davis Cup with the Italian national team. He is the athlete of the year, for what he does and for who he is.
Alice D’Amato
Beating Simone Biles seemed impossible. But no. Alice D’Amato, from Genoa, 21 years old, who became a Fairy by acclamation, succeeded at the Paris 2024 Games. The iron will, the dreams, the competitive ferocity. It was her gold on beam. Alice had already taken team silver in the same discipline at the Olympics.
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Sara Errani
Sometimes they come back. Indeed: they had never left. At 37 years old – and after having been a bridge between two generations – she is living a dream 2024. Paired with Jasmine Paolini he won the Olympic gold in Paris, plus the tournaments in Rome, Linz and Beijing and – with Andrea Vavassori – the mixed doubles at the US Open. Fabulous.
Angela Carini
You can enter the history of 2024 even on the wrong side. With an inappropriate gesture that does not comply with the laws of sport. Thus the Neapolitan boxer Angela Carini, who at the 2024 Paris Games abandoned the ring against her rival Imane Kehif after 45 seconds, lighting the spark of a futile controversy over the Algerian’s sexual identity.
Sofia Goggia
Go, come back. Stronger than before. Infinite Sofia Goggia, from Bergamo of iron and light, capable of returning ten months after an injury that could have jeopardized her career and winning again (the Super G of Beaver Creek) and then starting to dance the samba, to keep faith with a promise she made to itself.
Nadia Battocletti
There are athletes who impose themselves, even before their victories, for the way they compete in sport. The gentle pose is the distinctive trait of the thirty-year-old Nadia Battocletti, 24 years old, who in 2024 achieved the 5,000-10,000 title in Rome, the silver in the 10,000 in Paris and the triumph at the Eurocross. Sunny and smiling, Nadia wins even before starting the race.
Julio Velasco
We choose him, the coach, to represent the entire women’s Italvolley who won gold in Paris, the first in the history of the Italian national team. Julio Velasco, a master – even before sport – of life. Charisma, empathy, competence. This time too – from Egonu to Sylla, from Danesi to Orro, from Fahr to Di Gennaro – he has built a generation of phenomena.
Rigivan Ganeshamoorthy
He has an unpronounceable name, a winning smile, an extraordinary and natural ability to communicate. His name is Rigivan Ganeshamoorthy, he is 25 years old, Roman, at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games he won the gold medal in the F52 discus throw, improving the Paralympic world record three times. And with his spontaneous happiness, he immediately became a character.
Gimbo Tamberi
Roller coaster in 2024 for Gianmarco Tamberi. The great expectations for the Games, the hamstring injury on the eve of the Paris Games, the lost faith in the Seine during the opening ceremony, the kidney stones and hospitalization before the race, the weight controversies, the exit of the scene, the never-ending frictions with his father. Everything, more. In the hope that 2025 will be the year of revenge.
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Totò Schillaci
His name still bounces around in the conversations of those who – together and thanks to him – dreamed surfing on the wave of memories, along that unrepeatable summer, that of the world championship in Italy in 1990, conveniently called Magical Nights. Salvatore Schillaci passed away at just fifty-nine years old on 18 September 2024. In everyone’s memory, the image of Totò will remain, running with his arms in the air after a goal.
Source: Vanity Fair
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