Beijing 2022: the historic gold of Italian curling!

For Italy the Stone Age has begun and it is golden. TO Beijing 2022 the first historic medal arrived in curling. In mixed doubles, Stefania Constantini And Amos Mosaner they climbed to the top of the podium beating Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten’s Norway 8-5 in the final. They made a clear path: 11 wins in 11 races. They took home a medal that seemed unimaginable, but it is well deserved.

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It really is curling craze. Many have chosen at lunchtime to watch the final of a sport that in Italy barely reaches 500 players. Italy was ahead from the third end, but the game remained open until the end. The certainty of the last stone of the eighth end, the last stone thrown by Stefania who went to hit the Norwegian ones and to remain, alone, in point. She threw it, Amos accompanied it perfectly.

They did in the final what they had shown throughout the Olympics. Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner talked and confronted each other, they studied and waited, swept and calculated. Curling is a game of geometry and complicity, it is a game of details and communication. “All the shots that are made are done in two, it’s all a balance»Says she, a clerk in Cortina waiting to join a Sports Group, the real new star discovered in this Olympics in which Italy, the only Mediterranean representative, has beaten the giants of this sport that are bowls, darts and chess together, with something more.


Source: Vanity Fair

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