ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “It is often said that Tokyo is unrepeatable, but we are demonstrating that it is not so impossible. It won’t be easy to win five gold medals, but there are so many boys who go to medal. At the end of Torun there were five, but there were at least two other situations that could give us other precious metals.” Stefano Mei, President Fidal, enjoys an Italian athletic once again protagonist, as if the long wave started at the Japanese Games no longer exhausted. The last testimony came from the iridata indoor exhibition ended yesterday in Poland, where Italy closed third place in the medallion. Among the most beautiful bears that of Zaynab Dosso in the 60s, which makes well hope for the 100. “I talked to her just after the race, she told me that she is working to stretch and that there will be surprises during the year – says Mei at “Radio Anch’io Sport” on Rai Radio 1 – The movement is really effervescent, in all the races we see many young people who are approaching excellent results. We are doing a more capillary job on the territory to give chances to all societies to grow their talents. We are doing very well and for the future I see it well.”.
And despite the disappointment of Fabbri, who vented on social media (“These guys are constantly under pressure, I know well, I did this job and know what happens in the head. Leo is a very sensitive boy, I think he has to do just straps”), Italy looks confidently at the Europeans of August in Birmingham: “Another crucial step. We all want to improve. I have some doubts about the fact that we can improve the 24 medals of the home edition of Rome two years ago. The idea is to bring a very large team, that maybe can improve the number of finalists, if not just the number of medals. It will be an important step that will take us to the Beijing World Cup and the Los Angeles Games.”.
Finally, on the possibility of bringing the World Cup to Rome, Mei admits that “In the week we will meet with the ministry’s evaluation team, we presented the project to have the support of the government. We will see if we have the body’s ok and then we try. We will present the complete dossier on April 2 or 3 at World Athletics. In mid-September, in Budapest during the Ultimate Championship, there will be the decision. We run for 2029 or 2031. There are many great cities in the mountains, but the fact that the last edition of the World Cup in Rome was 39 years ago can help us.”.
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