The girls of 2024 are already here and some of them already have their pass for the Olympics in their pockets, not those of Paris in three years. Had there been the Games in Tokyo in the right year, we would not have seen them all at the Olympics. With the postponement of a year and the progress they have made during the lockdown, there are great possibilities for them at the Olympic Games which begin on 23 July, Covid always permitting.
The oldest, forgive us for the term, are just eighteen. The youngest of them are sixteen.
All are the spearheads of theirs sport and the pandemic hasn’t really slowed them down, on the contrary it has made them go faster.
LARISSA IAPICHINO
She celebrated her 18th birthday last summer and gave herself a jump from 6 meters and 80 beating the Italian Under 20 record and scoring the second Italian measure of all time, the fifth world championship of the year. Daughter of former pole jumper Gianni Iapichino and Fiona May, Olympic silver and long jump world champion, said she used the time of the pandemic to change her technique: she dismantled the old jump and reassembled it, in her own words. He changed technique in the run up following the model of the Serbian Ivana Stepanovic. A few centimeters are enough to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
«I record I’m made to be beaten and my mom encourages me to beat hers, she wouldn’t mind, ”Larissa explained. Mom is mom, but she is anxious in competitions and can’t sit still. At home there is no talk of athletics and comparisons are not made, also because they have two completely different styles and compete in two different eras. Larissa’s contemporaneity is in musical tastes, The Weeknd, Machine Gun Kelly, Dua Lipa, in common they have a love for Fiorentina. Sports idols: Michael Jordan, Allyson Felix and Usain Bolt. Mom Fiona is the mom.
BLESSED PILATE
At the age of 16 on January 18, he won the pass for the Tokyo Olympics in the hundred breaststroke, winning the Italian absolute with the new national record 1’06 ″ 02. It is the fourth European time of all time that set by the young Taranto coached by Vito d’Onghia. “It was a bit of a ransom because I never went as I would have liked in the past at the Absolutes,” she said after the race. They seem like veteran words, as if it were ten years ago that the absolute Italian championships.
If the Olympics had been last August and not postponed for Covid, perhaps Benedetta would not have gone to Tokyo. Now his Olympic perspective it goes on at least until Los Angeles 2028. It is a very long road for this girl from Taranto, where there is no swimming pool for her workouts and for years she has covered thirty kilometers on the way out and as many on the way back almost every day. In addition to school, high school specializes in applied sciences.
She said the school helped her not to get lost in the lockdown. “In the morning at least I was busy with online lessons, the rest of the day without the pool was heavy … When I got back in the water, with my coach D’Onghia we thought it was the right opportunity to exploit to work on the technique. We looked at each other and said to ourselves: if there are no races to face, let’s try to improve ». He worked on underwater turns and on gesture mechanics. 2020 leaves her the ability to adapt.
CHIARA PELLACANI
The hope of the blue dives has the maturity like Larissa Iapichino in the year that could be the Olympics. Chiara Pellacani was born in 2002 and those of Tokyo could be her first Olympics. He has been in the senior national team since 2017. Surprise gold in 3-meter sync at the 2018 European Championships. «My day», he told the Gazzetta dello Sport, «is now set on training. In this period both in the morning and in the afternoon, from 8.30 to 11.30 and from 15 to 18, in two almost mirror-like sessions. You start with gymnastics .. then you move on to the trampoline … Up there I’m fine, same thing for the platform ».
MATILDE VILLA
She needs a whole team to go to Tokyo, but at 16 she has plenty of time for a women’s basketball team to form around her. No one at his age had ever scored 36 points in basketball A1. Neither among men nor among women. Play for Costa Masnaga. “At the beginning I didn’t pay much attention to it, then as the game went on I realized that the ball went in more easily than on other occasions.” She has a bright smile, a twin sister and a great desire to continue doing what she enjoys most: playing basketball.
GIORGIA VILLA
Same surname but a different sport. The gymnast goes for the age of 18 and, thanks to the historic bronze at the 2019 World Championships, she goes with the art team to the Olympics. He goes there with a workout that never ends week after week in Brescia. Only on the weekend does he return to Bergamo. His is the story of many with the grandparents lost to Covid last year. School takes place in the Academy. To get excited there is the music of Emma Marrone and Sfera Ebbasta. Her favorite is the beam and she has already looked to the future: she will be a coach. His idol? Vanessa Ferrari.
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