ROME - Italy is poised to build on a record-setting success at last
Summer Olympics, said Giovanni Malago, president of the Italian National
Olympic Committee. The Italian team, announced earlier this week, will include 118
athletes, two fewer than that of the 2018 PyeongChang, and Malago
expected this year's team will do better than its counterparts from four
years ago. The 2018 Games still showed a strong performance by Italian athletes
as they won a total of 10 medals, including three gold medals in women's
short-track speed skating, women's snowboarding, and Alpine skiing. "In Beijing we can and must do better than in 2018," Malago told
Italian journalists. "I am an incurable optimist and we have worked
hard." Italy will have experienced hands to push for that goal as all the
three gold medallists - women's 500m short-track speed skating champion
Arianna Fontana, women's snowboard cross winner Michela Moioli and
Alpine skiing women's downhill title holder Sofia Goggia will go to
Beijing. Goggia, who had originally been selected to carry the Italian flag at
the opening ceremony in Beijing, suffered a knee injury on Sunday in an
Olympic test event at the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo. Moioli will replace Goggia as Italy's flag bearer, but Goggia remains
in the team and hopes to recover in time to defend her title in the
Olympic downhill race in February in China. Top Italian team members also include world champion standouts
Federica Brignone, Marta Bassino, Dominik Paris, and Federico
Pellegrino. Cortina d'Ampezzo will co-host with the Italian city of Milan at the
2026 Olympic Winter Games. That will be the third time Italy hosts the
Winter Olympics, following Turin in 2006 and Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956.
2026 host Italy expects good performance in Beijing Olympics
Editor:阮梓峰
Source:China Daily
Updated:2022-01-28 17:04:04
Source:China Daily
Updated:2022-01-28 17:04:04
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