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He will be come back?

Defeats with such fencers (Greece, UK, wtf) are a scandal and should never happen. After all, the level of these European Championships is so embarrassing that maybe only 1/2 of the players can match us. There will be a massacre at the World Championships if Favaretto does not return in good shape, and the USA will be the favorite any

It was bad at the end of Cerioni era, but now it's awful. Not only we losing for the USA, but even some exotic fencers in Europe are beating us. Without Favaretto our foil doesn't exist?

Volpi out, Cristino out (for UK). Only 1 athletes for Italy in top 8 It`s ok?

But, not for Greek... C`mon

Errigo loses to the Greek in 1/8... This is a disgrace. Where is the generational change?

Rychlicki has joined this year, but he is at a similar level to Romano. It`s also worrying that Bovolenta is not making progress and he has a potential for a big career. It doesn't look good for us today. France and Poland are out of reach - also mentally. Since 2022, we have made basically no progress, on the contrary - there is regression.

At the World Championships, to win a medal, we will have to beat Argentina and France. I don't believe in that, so the VNL is our only chance for some success this year and looking at the current form, it will be a problem to advance to the Final Round. It will probably end with another empty year and another year of regression for our team. As of today, we have no arguments to beat France and Poland and I don't see any chance in the future for this gap to decrease.

Italy loses to France's reserves. If we lose to France B, what can be said about France A? Even with Michieletto's return, I don't see any chance of a World Cup medal this season. After the unexpected gold at the 2022 World Cup, we are not making any progress and the likes of France and Poland are crushing us. By the way, we lost our 4th official match in a row to France since 2023 and this is another team sport where we are worse than them. And we only have volleyball, because in football or basketball we are at the bottom. In 4 major team sports: football, basketball, handball and volleyball, where we are behind France. Only in women's volleyball we are better... It is a shame that we cannot at least have a better team in men's volleyball.

Gold for Italy

Oro

Non sapevo che la Stanley Cup si sarebbe giocata ancora a giugno

Nell'anno post-olimpico presto meno attenzione a sport come la scherma, il judo, ecc. Mi concentro di più sugli sport di squadra e sul tennis. Solo dopo le Olimpiadi invernali tornerò a interessarmi di più agli sport estivi. A proposito, cosa ne pensi di Brignone? Ha la possibilità di tornare nel 2026 e competere per qualcosa a Cortina?

Volevo dire a un allenatore straniero, ma nella situazione attuale il tempo a disposizione è così limitato che probabilmente dovrebbe essere un allenatore italiano. Gattuso sarà bene? Non ne ho idea... Sarà sicuramente più un motivatore che un tattico, darà più importanza alla mentalità, ecc. Forse è meglio, perché non insegnerai nuove tattiche a questa squadra in 3-4 giorni di ritiro a settembre o marzo. Vedremo, ma purtroppo il materiale umano di questa squadra è molto debole: scarse capacite tecniche + mancanza di motivazione e voglia di lottare. Spero che Gattuso migliori almeno questo secondo aspetto.

Considerando anche le competizioni per club, il basket sembra essere calato un po di piu. Certamente queste due discipline hanno subito un declino molto forte nel XXI secolo. Per molti anni, abbiamo contato regolarmente solo nella pallavolo e nella pallanuoto (ma anche la pallanuoto femminile è molto più debole rispetto a 20 anni fa). Il resto sono imprese isolate (Euro 2020 nel calcio, o la qualificazione del basket a Tokyo 2020).

Ma deve essere sempre qualcuno italiano? Quando si dimetteranno Gravina e tutta la FIGC

Cantaluppi's sudden departure just before the Paris Olympics was also strange - either she received more in Israel or she knew that her terrible training methods would soon be exposed (Rafaelli supposedly had to kneel in front of her and take off clothes if she did something wrong). In your opinion, does Rafaelli still have a chance at an Olympic medal in 2028? The bronze in Paris was OK, but it also left me a little dissatisfied.

But is this any wonder? In Italy, there are also constant scandals in this sport. Apparently, if you don't use methods from the former USSR or China, you lose and that's why new scandals about the mistreatment of young athletes break out (I mean this sector with Sofia Raffaelli. The second one with d`Amato sisters and Manila Esposito works better, but on the other hand there is a terrible problem with injuries of the top gymnasts).

Una decisione del tutto comprensibile per me. Il rischio di un altro disastro è enorme e Ranieri non vuole essere il capro espiatorio. La colpa è principalmente di Gravina, che dovrebbe dimettersi.

Paradoxically, Ukrainian gymnastics is now showing better results than before 2022, for example in rhythmic gymnastics. So, the federation is probably not that bad when you write before, as it`s able to provide good conditions for athletes in times of war? How do you explain that?

I repeat once: fo me the national team is not a club that you can change whenever you want... That is why, for example, the attacks on Louis Figo once, because he moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid - very brutal attacks, were less justified than someone changing his passport to a country with which he has zero ties.

They can make such decisions, but they have to expect that they will be criticized for it. Colturi still lives in Italy, trains most days of the year in our centers, has an entire Italian team around him but competes in the colors of a country with which he has no ties on the past. For me, however, national colors are not a sports club, that you can change them. And just to be clear, I don`t mean people who, for example, have a mother from one country and a father from another, like Braathen in men's skiing.

Just relax man, ok? Would you be happy if, for example, Janica Kostelic took Italian citizenship 20 years ago and started skiing for us? Exactly... Point of view always depends on the point of sitting...

In Italy, the case of Lara Colturi was recently widely discussed and it will probably come back if she wins a medal in Cortina and our Brignone does not return on time. I do not support this myself and I am sorry that someone chooses another country for personal and economic reasons, with which they had no previous ties. Colturi is now 19 years old and some people also ask not to attack her because she is very young and it is her mother's fault.

I think that he isn`t such a well-known figure as Olga Kharlan, Klitschko, or formerly Shevchenko to cause a big scandal. Secondly, these are still isolated cases for now, similar to the situation of athletes from Russia in other countries, e.g. Kasatkina in tennis.