It is the elegance of Rhythmic gymnastics butterflies to bring to Italy the medal number 40 of Tokyo 2020, a round figure never reached. It arrived among hoops, balls and clubs. In Rio 2016 the queens of gracefulness were fourth after the bronze in London 2012. The new queens are the Bulgarians in front of Russia who lost the first step of the podium even in the individual after decades and who had not lost the team race since Sidney 2000.
Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Alessia Maurelli, Daniela Mogurean, Martina Santandrea they were fourth after the rotation with the ball and after an appeal to the Var requested by the coach Emanuela Maccarani who raised the score from 44.
550 to 44,850. The final third place comes after the exercise in circles and clubs with 42,850 ahead of Belarus. For Italy in total 87,700.
The music chosen by the blue are Butterfly-Ninja and the Tree of Life. The second rotation was fundamental for interpretation and quality. In the history of butterflies this is the third Olympic medal after the 2004 Athens silver medal and the 2012 London bronze medal.
It is the medal of commitment and effort, of athletes who train 11 months a year almost always away from home, at the national rhythm academy, inaugurated in Desio in 2018. «Wake up at 7, in the gym at 8 until one. In summer from 4.30 to 8 in the afternoon. In winter we start earlier because there is school from 6 to 8 ». Alessia Maurelli, captain of the blue rhythmic gymnastics team, told Vanity Fair about her typical day and the 9 companions who train with her every day for 11 months a year.
In Tokyo on Butterflies they presented themselves with the formation of the European Championships in Varna who won the silver: captain Alessia Maurelli, 25, born in Rivoli, in the province of Turin, and raised in Ferrara, Martina Centofanti, daughter of the former full-back of Inter Felice , born in 1998, Agnese Duranti from Spoleto, 22, Martina Santandrea from Ferrara, 22 and Daniela Mogurean, twenty-year-old from Padua, of Moldovan origins.
“In this medal are all the tears we have shed, our whole life of the last five years. We dedicate it to our coach, “our angel”, Emanuela Maccarani. We told ourselves to compete with heart, union and soul. This guided us after the first rotation and we did the second exercise as best we could. The Italian rhythm is there and we are happy to have given a further boost with this medal ».
Emanuela Maccarani is at the sixth Olympiad. “Martina Centofanti is the cornerstone of the team, Alessia Maurelli is the heart, the two of them had narrowly missed the medal in Rio. Agnese Duranti is elegance, Martina Santandrea the brain, Daniela Mogurean is my pride, she has been a reserve for four years and with great humility she has always made herself available ». They are all our beautiful butterflies of rhythmic gymnastics.
In the gallery above, the images of the Italians’ exercises.
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