by Giorgio La Bruzzo
CORTINA (ITALPRESS) – He risked not to be there after that fall in training and instead, as she pointed out, “in 48 hours I went from the hospital to the medal”. Michela Moioli takes the scene at the Winter Games of Milan-Cortina, conquering what will be the only podium of the day, the 18th for Italy ever closer to the record of Lillehammer (20). The nearly 31-year-old Bergamasca, after a strepitosa reassembled in the semifinals from the last to the first place, in the last act loses the trail of Baff and Adamczykova but makes worth his experience on the very young Swiss Wiedmer and takes a bronze with which he completes his collection, since in Pyeonchang he took the gold while four years ago he put the silver at his neck in the team test with Vimarin “I believed in it, because in this sport everything can happen – claims – I am really proud of me, so much. Not only for the medal, but because I did an incredible path, supported by people and an exceptional team, with my family always next door. It was tough, I bear the signs on my face – the reference to the consequences of the fall – but “the Moioli never dies”. It’s nice to close this circle: I wanted to take a medal in Milan Cortina and I made it, then you will see”.
For a medal Moioli there is instead a Tommaso Giacomel more than disappointed after an anonymous 22nd place in the sprint of biathlon. The 25-year-old of Vipiteno is too foul to the polygon, two errors on the ground and one standing, and ends away from the gold of the French Quentin Fillon Maillet. Better than him, among the Italians, Lukas Hofer (13th) and Nicola Romanin (16th). “I am very disappointed because I think this was the most suitable race for me. Getting here as a favorite or in any case among the favorites and performing so badly is a thing that makes me very angry”, the regret of Giacomel, which also compromised the pursuit of Sunday since the ranking of the sprint determines the starting order of the next test. Tomorrow it is up to Wierer and Vittozzi, with the blue team that recovers for the relay also Rebecca Passler whose suspension for doping was revoked by the Court of Appeal of Nado Italia.
The speed skating remains dry, with Ghiotto sixth (“I sucked, it could be my last Olimpiade”, the vent) and Lorello eighth in 10,000, while in the 10 km free background technique dominated by the usual Klabo (third gold in this edition, the eighth of the career), Carollo collects a seventh encouraging place in view of the relay.
In the skeleton Amedeo Bagnis bitter chewing: fifth final square but only 34 cents from bronze. Day in chiaroscuro for the men’s curling national, which in the morning beats Great Britain but then suffers the first defeat of the tournament, knocked at the extra end from Germany.
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(ITALPRESS).
