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The growth of Italian athletics, certified by recent successes and sealed by the triumph at the European team championships, is also evidenced by the ever-increasing number of athletes competing in Diamond League meetings. There will be as many as nine on Friday night in Lausanne in the sixth leg of the world’s top circuit (Yeman Crippa has renounced), and three more on Sunday in Stockholm (and what spikes: Tamberi, Iapichino, Sibilio). The double event will be visible on TV: Lausanne on Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. on RaiSport, Sky Sport Summer and Sky Sport Arena, Stockholm on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. on Rai 2 and Sky Sport Arena.

There is an Italian in almost every specialty. Let’s start with those who raised the cup in Chorzow for the first historic victory in the main continental event: Zane Weir (Fiamme Gialle), over all. The European indoor champion, one of seven individual winners in Chorzow (21.59), is essentially called to an Olympic final in the weight with world record holder Ryan Crouser, the other U.S. Joe Kovacs, New Zealand’s Tom Walsh and all the best of Europe including the other Italian Leonardo Fabbri (Aeronautica, 21.81 in Pergine, European seasonal leader), Croatian Filip Mihaljevic, Czech Tomas Stanek. In Silesia, talented long runner Mattia Furlani (Fiamme Oro) and hurdler Ayomide Folorunso (Fiamme Oro) finished second and seek confirmation: Furlani finds the same opponents as in Chorzow, namely the only one who beat him, Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, and the two other listed Europeans left behind him, Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer and Sweden’s Thobias Montler; Folorunso is in the 400hs with Holland’s queen Femke Bol. From the Slaski Stadium feat also comes Pietro Arese (Fiamme Gialle), who makes his Diamond League debut in a space 1500 with Olympic gold medalist Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway) and newly crowned world record holder in the steeplechase Lamecha Girma (Ethiopia). Instead after 4.25 in Poland she wants to turn the page in La Pontaise Roberta Bruni (Carabinieri), in her fourth Diamond League outing of the season, where Olympic and world gold medalist Katie Moon (USA) never misses. Spectacular at the Tricolori U23 the dance between the hurdles of Lorenzo Simonelli (13.40 regular, 13.29 windy): for his ‘first’ in Diamond League in the Athletissima meeting the 21-year-old from the Esercito finds the Japanese Shunsuke Izumiya and the Swiss Jason Joseph. First 800 of the outdoor season for Elena Bellò (Fiamme Azzurre) after her 2:36.35 in Nice in the 1000: the star is Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, season’s dominator in 1:55.77. And there is a 400-meter lane in the pre-meet for Italian record holder Davide Re (Fiamme Gialle), strong from a convincing comeback in 45.54: he challenges training partner Ricky Petrucciani (Switzerland) and Dutchman Liemarvin Bonevacia.

Seven days after Chorzow’s 2.29, Olympic champion Gianmarco Tamberi (Fiamme Oro) is back on the platform: in Stockholm, stage No. 7, he finds an even higher technical level, given the presence of Korean world indoor gold medalist Woo Sang-hyeok, outdoor rainbow silver medalist, New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr with whom Gimbo shared the indoor bronze in Belgrade 2022, Australia’s Brandon Starc, and Ukraine’s Andriy Protsenko. After the victory in Florence, the first seal in the Diamond League, for Larissa Iapichino (Fiamme Gialle) it’s World Championships air again in the long: big match with Olympic and world gold medalist Malaika Mihambo (Germany), Serbia’s Ivana Vuleta, Nigeria’s Ese Brume, and Britain’s Jazmin Sawyers, the only one able to surpass her at the European indoor championships in Istanbul. Alessandro Sibilio (Fiamme Gialle) has never raced in the Diamond League: the debut is not exactly ‘soft’, in the presence of world record holder Karsten Warholm (Norway) and other excellent 400hs performers such as France’s Wilfried Happio, Estonia’s Rasmus Magi, Turkey’s Yasmani Copello. With Chorzow’s 48.14, although achieved without technical perfection, one can think big.

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Milan, Tammy Abraham sheds light on her future

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Tammy Abraham punished Inter again in the derby first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal. After the decisive goal in Riyad with which he gave the Super Cup to the Rossoneri, the English striker found the goal of the momentary lead with the Nerazzurri, who tied the score with Calhanoglu.

“I am really happy for the goal for me and for the team– Abraham said in the press conference. “Then we didn&#8217t win, so we are not happy and we have to fight for the next game, being positive, knowing that we are a good team”.

Then the’ex-Roma spoke about his future: “I do not know my future now. Milan is a great club, very passionate. I want to fight until the end for this club. Staying does not depend only on me”.

“It is a difficult season for everyone. We have other games though, every game is a final. There are always ups and downs. I would have liked to score more but the season is not over. There are 11 games to fight for. We want to play in Europe. We want to try to win the Italian Cup” Abraham concluded.

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Lewis Hamilton, disqualification behind: “Immediately looked ahead”

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Lewis Hamilton spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Japanese Grand Prix, scheduled for the weekend. “I heard some people say some nonsense – he began – like I would be losing faith in the team. I can say I believe 100% in this team, obviously there was a huge hype at the beginning of the year, probably a lot of people expected us to win right away, starting from the first race, but that was not what I expected.”

“I’m coming into a new culture, a new team, and it’s going to take time – added the British driver. “I’ve spent the last couple of months just observing how the team works compared to the other two I’ve worked in before. During the past week I have been able to take notes and point out areas where I think we can improve, and this process will continue throughout the year as we learn more and more from each other”.

Then he came back to the disqualification in China: “In general during a race you always avoid areas of the asphalt where there are bumps, in Shanghai at the exit of turn 13 the bottom was not touching the asphalt, there was not even rebound or anything like that, so I had no warning. Regarding disqualifications, we all know that all these single-seaters are set to the limit in every parameter, personally I didn&#8221t feel any frustration when I was made aware of it. It is what it is”.

“We immediately looked ahead, I was in Maranello on Wednesday and learned a lot. I would say the most impressive thing was seeing how the team worked, how they processed the data and how we worked ahead of this weekend, that is the most important thing” Hamilton concluded.

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Jannik Sinner, Riccardo Piatti name 4 names for post-Darren Cahill

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Riccardo Piatti, former coach of Jannik Sinner, gave a lengthy interview to Corriere della Sera in which he spoke about his former pupil with whom he parted ways more than three years ago: “When I finished with Jannik I admit I had a few months of daze, then I went toward what I like: teaching tennis. The Piatti Center is not a supermarket: you go through a growth process here. I did that myself. It was a mental click, priorities changed but tennis remains at the top of my thoughts. Now I chase kids” dreams.

“Everyone remembers the match with Daniel, in Melbourne, in January 2022, when he said: ‘be calm, ca**o’ – continued the Italian coach -. He was mad at me for court stuff, it had happened before: it is normal dynamic between coach and player. That is not the problem. I always wanted Jannik to become independent, I knew he would leave one day. But with him I had to be the strict, sometimes rigid coach: that was my role. Ljubicic scolds me that I used to tell him: you decide, Ivan, but then you do as I say. For Jannik, this penalty, at one point, was too much to handle”.

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Then he mentioned a few names for the post-Darren Cahill, who will leave the’Alto Adige at the end of the season: “Carlos Moya, who I had already considered. He has been No. 1, he knows the circuit. Humanly he is a very good person, like Darren. Renzo Furlan, now that he stopped with Paolini, is free. Ljubicic is very good. Or Becker, whom we had contacted; however, working with Boris is more complicated. The names are these”.

Closing on the return of the world number one, expected at the Internazionali d’Italia: “He will be strong right away. I really believe he can make the Grand Slam this year. The suspension has extended his life: he will arrive at the end of the season fresh. You play too much, mentally you never stop. He will come back energized and motivated. He always has been. In the pandemic many took advantage of it by not training, Gasquet in the doping stop gained eight pounds, Jannik did not lose a day. He knows perfectly well where he wants to go”.

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