Ursula Von der Leyen cited them as an example of the spirit of Europe. Roger Federer went to see them in person. They are Carola and Vittoria, the girls whose video in which they played tennis from the roof of their houses in Finale Ligure, the most beautiful image of a year of sport who showed up more for absences than for events. No Olympics, no Europeans, but a lot of inventiveness. No Wimbledon, but Roland Garros took place in the autumn, like the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia finished respectively in late summer and in October.
Football has found its way into empty stadiums.
The important thing was to be there. In any case, try to play sports whether amateur or professional.
Just incredible to see 💖
📍 Liguria, Italy 🇮🇹 | #tennisathome pic.twitter.com/dh8bqlvFhj
— ATP Tour (@atptour) April 18, 2020
The year that began with the tragic death of Kobe Bryant he saw the most heartfelt of NBA victories for his Lakers, who, in the Orlando bubble, dedicated the title to him. Despite changes in dates and events without an audience, it was still a record year: on the same day Rafa Nadal won his 20th Grand Slam title, joining Roger Federer, and Lewis Hamilton took his seventh world title in F1 to equal Michael Schumacher.
Formula One was the protagonist. Not only a record on the track, but also a rescue, that of Romain Grosjean with the car on fire, unthinkable in the past and a stance, led by Hamilton, for human rights, which had never been seen in the engines. All sport kneeled for Black Lives Matter.
The great cycling tours went from spring and summer to autumn. Italians did not triumph, but the race was fought as it rarely happened. And there is an Italian who made history on two wheels. Filippo Ganna he was the first Italian to win the world time trial title and four stages of the Giro d’Italia.
For Italy the women of the snow won: Federica Brignone and Dorothea Wierer. But also a promise of tennis now equipped to be champion. Jannik Sinner he won his first tournament in Sofia and is ready to climb already from the first tournaments of 2021 for which he is training with Nadal.
He suffered, but did not miss, football. Two images above all to show that sport is made up of people. Gennaro Gattuso won his first trophy as a coach, the Coppa Italia with Napoli, in the year in which he lost his sister at the age of 37 and told of having myasthenia, an autoimmune disease. The other man of the year is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He would say that every year is the year of Zlatan, but this 2020 has been more than others: only he could return to Milan at 39 and bring the team back to the top of the championship.
His and the other images of the year are in the gallery above.
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