Beijing 2022: Davide Ghiotto, bronze medal for the philosopher on skates

The first to not believe it was him among his teammates and then at the moment of getting on the podium. He said it shortly after. “I’m not a frequenter of the podium, they gave me directions,” he said Davide Ghiotto, bronze medal in the 10,000 meters of speed skating in Beijing 2022.

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In the drums with the Olympic and world champion, the Swede Nils Van der Poelthe blue finished the race in 12’45 “98, third behind Van der Poel, who set the world record, and the Dutchman Roest bringing the ninth medal for Italy at the Beijing Games at which Dorothea Wierer’s bronze is added shortly after.

A happiness that he himself struggles to describe, “I will achieve”, but which has solid roots. The 28-year-old Ghiotto comes from the province of Vicenza, the home of Italian skating. Here was born Enrico Fabris, a legend of blue skating capable of winning two golds and a bronze at the 2006 Turin Olympics, today in the technical staff of the national team. From here comes Nicola Tumolero, bronze medalist in the 10 thousand meters at PyeongChang 2018.

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It should also be noted that Davide Ghiotto comes from his best season between the World Cup and the European Championships, an Olympic podium is something elsewhich seems unimaginable even if it was certainly in the dreams of a child who started in roller skating at 7 and has been on ice since 2013.

In the meantime he studied philosophy and has become a father a few months ago. The dedication is for Filippo, as well as for his whole family, and also the heart mimicked in worldwide. He can’t wait to bring him the games mascot, the nowhere to be found panda given to athletes before medals.

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