Italian sabers, this is Italy and we must be proud of it. Silver in the team saber. The Azzurri, with Aldo Montano on the last stage, yield to South Korea in the final. Nothing to do against the number 1 of the ranking and Olympic champion in 2012 (in 2016 the test was not in the five-circle program): 45-26 the final result, marking a distance that is difficult to bridge. For Italy the male saber is the 21st Olympic medal. A certainty, from generation to generation.
Enrico Berrè, Luca Curatoli, Luigi Samele (injured) and fought proudly Aldo Montano, the Highlander of the Italian saber, one of the symbolic athletes of the last twenty years of Italian sport, yet another demonstration, as Federica Pellegrini was, that the class dribbles the identity card, mocks it and looks elsewhere – in tenacity, in stimuli, in passion – its own pedestal. Everything is possible, when the spark still burns inside you.
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The absolute protagonist of this fabulous ride was Aldo Montano. 42 years old, from Livorno, fifth participation in the Games, in his palmares individual gold and team silver in Athens 2004 and team bronze in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, plus another wagon of medals won between world and European championships . Aldo son of Mario (gold in Monaco 72 and silver in Montreal 76 and Moscow 80) and grandson of Aldo (silver in Berlin 36 and London 48), winning in the name of family tradition that – who knows – could continue with the two small children that the blue had from his wife, former model and former athlete Olga Plachina: Olimpia and Mario.
It was Montano who dragged the Azzurri – from reserve – to the final, after a thrilling semifinal and closed to the last assault against Hungary (45-43): a great feat, which led Italy to play for the gold with South Korea and which pushed Montano beyond the age limits. “I almost almost stay until Paris 2024, maybe even as a gunsmith… ». Maybe. He had promised – to himself, more than anything else – that this Tokyo event would be his last Olympics. If so, there could not have been a better leave for one of the most successful sportsmen in our recent history.
Two medals came in the day. The bronze of 4 without Italian, with Matteo Castaldo, Marco Di Costanzo, Matteo Lodo and Giuseppe Vicino who finished third behind Australia and Romania. It was a day marked by Bruno Rosetti’s forfeit due to Covid 19, but the Azzurri turned out to be stronger than everything. The other satisfaction in the tub, with yet another bronze. This time it was Federico Burdisso to win him, incredulous for the extraordinary performance in the 200 butterfly. “And to say that I didn’t even want to compete because of the stress …”, revealed the blue, confirming how much – in these Games – it is the psychological factor that decides the fates of the athletes.
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