It’s gold! With grit, power, intelligence and so much passion The Italian women’s volleyball team won the Olympic final against the United States 3-0. It is the first gold medal for all Italian volleyball. And the first for the women’s team, which had never won a medal at the Games. A perfect matchfrom serving to receiving, through total blocks and smashes.
With proverbial wisdom the technical commissioner Julio Velasco she had always maintained that it was not a big deal if you didn’t win gold. After the victory in the semi-final against Serbia she had also argued against the pressure on her players: «In Italy we always think about what we don’t have: I fight this culture of complaint“. In short, at worst, the coach said, “I’ll enjoy the silver medal.” Which would have been historic anyway. Let us remember that only the men’s team had reached the top of the Olympics. The men’s volleyball team had won silver at Atlanta 1996 (when the coach was Velasco and the so-called Generation of Phenomena was on the field, from Zorzi to Lucchetta), Athens 2004 and Rio 2016, and the bronze to Los Angeles 1984, Sydney 2000 and London 2012.
But today Paola Egonu, Myriam Sylla, Alessia Orro, Caterina Bosetti, Monica «Moki» De Gennaro, Sarah Fahr, Anna Danesi and partners went further. Velasco’s team, which arrived in Paris 2024 after winning the Nations League, dominated the match.
The first set, after a stratospheric start that saw the Azzurre detach the USA by as much as seven points, it ended 25 to 18. In the second set the Americans recovered and started to hit the ground running. But ours received everything, raised everything, dunked, lobbed, blocked, parried all the shots from the opposing flanks, they seem to have superpowers: the set ends 25 to 20 for Italy. The third set continues in the same direction, the Italians immediately take the lead, maintaining a four, five point advantage and reach the end leaving the Americans at 17 points.
A crushing victory, a well-deserved gold medal: and considering that the Italians have lost only one set in all the matches at the 2024 Paris Olympics, it’s truly a record.
Source: Vanity Fair
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