ROME (ITALPRESS) – Rino Tommasi, a landmark in the world of sports and journalism, has died at age 90. The Fitp’s website, Supertennis, gives the news. A journalist, then television commentator and boxing event organizer, he began in 1953 in the “Sportinformazioni” agency dedicated to sports, which also served as the Milan correspondence office for Corriere dello Sport. A leading tennis signatory of the Gazzetta dello Sport, he also worked for Il Messaggero, Il Gazzettino di Venezia, and Il Mattino di Napoli. He also founded a weekly newspaper in the early 1970s, “Tennis Club.” In 1981, he was chosen as Channel 5’s first sports coverage director. Thus began his career as a commentator, which intersected with that of Gianni Clerici, after whom the Foro Italico press room is named. The two formed one of the most recognized and recognizable pairs of sports commentators in Italy thus beginning his personal television career, and over the next thirty years he established himself as the most recognizable and appreciated sports commentator in the history of Italian sports communication. For him, Clerici coined the nickname “ComputeRino,” because of his maniacality in recording records and statistics. For Clerici, Tommasi had invented the equally famous label “Dr. Divago.” His other great passion was boxing, of which he was the first Italian impresario especially at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome with his ITOS (Italian Sports Organizations).- Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
