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Filippo Tortu sheds light on his injury
The words of Filippo Tortu
Mission accomplished: the Italian 4×100 team secures qualification for the World Championships in Budapest by running 38.04 in Grosseto, thanks to the quartet composed of Roberto Rigali, Filippo Tortu, Lorenzo Patta and Samuele Ceccarelli, an unprecedented lineup capable of running the third fastest time ever for the Italian relay team, lower only than the two times run in Tokyo during the final (37.50) and the Olympic battery (37.95). Italy, clearly improving on the 38.38 it ran in May, bypasses five national teams in one fell swoop on the Road To Budapest and signs the second repechage time (out of 8), having the reasonable certainty of not being out of the eight qualifiers on the July 30 date. At the end, moments of apprehension for Tortu, who was left on the ground sore in one arm and then got up after a few minutes. From an under-23 perspective, there is another best Italian performance in the category to report after last Saturday’s in Espoo: three-quarters of the European U23 champion team (Eric Marek, Matteo Melluzzo, Marco Ricci), with the inclusion of Lorenzo Simonelli in the last fraction, expressed themselves in 38.76 less than a week after the 38.92 all-gold. Third place for Malta’s quartet with 40.76.
“It went even better than expected – the words of Roberto Rigali – considering that with Filippo Tortu I didn’t change so many times. But we found each other right away and it’s also the result of many meets, which started five years ago, so even if we don’t try so many times we can understand what our partner is looking for.” First time in the third fraction for Olympic champion Lorenzo Patta: “I’ve been dreaming of doing it for a while, and I’m really happy for a result we’ve been waiting for a long time and it’s finally here. Happy to have raced it here, in Grosseto, at our home.”
Then the roar of the crowd to rejoice with Samuele Ceccarelli at the finish: “Really a show! We managed to show what we can be worth and what the group can do. It is the fruit of the work with the technical sector of the Federation, always attentive to the needs of the athletes, but also of the fellowship between us, who joke and tease each other, but when it is time to run we are focused and respond present to give our best.” “We tried, wanted and dreamed so much about this World Cup qualification,” Filippo Tortu says in a social post, “that when I found out we had made it, I cheered like never before in my life … maybe too much, because my shoulder came out from the exultation. It hurts, but it hurts less when I think about going to Budapest! Thank you guys, for what we conquered and for the sense of belonging to this jersey that we show together every time.”
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All-U.S. semifinal at US Open
Another big man exits the tournament. After the various Alcaraz and Djokovic, Zverev è is also no longer in the running at the US Open. The German è was beaten by Fritz in four sets (7-6 (2) 3-6 6-4 7-6), at the end of a match that è lasted almost three and a half hours. A defeat that leaves a lot of bitterness in Zverev’s mouth. The German was aiming to reach at least the final.
A feat for the American who, dragged by the home crowd, won the first semifinal of a Slam event. After winning the first set on tie-break, Fritz suffered the return of Zverev, who took home the second partial with a peremptory 6-3. The momentum seemed to be in the German’s hands but Fritz escaped on 3-0. Zverev recovers but gives up at the più beautiful. Spectacular fourth set. Zverev tries everything but, once again, the tie-break costs him dearly. He loses it 7-3 and says goodbye to the tournament.
Dreams big for Fritz who, in the semifinals, will face the other American Tiafoe who, in the quarterfinals, wins the match with Dimitrov, forced to retire in the fourth set due to a physical problem: 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 4-1 the partials in favor of Tiafoe.
The United States dreams, after 21 years (Roddick, 2003), of an American winning the U.S. Open. In the meantime, it enjoys Sinner who, thanks to Zverev è’s knockout; increasingly serene in his comfortable position as world No. 1.
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Juventus, the list
Juventus has also released the Uefa list for the 2024/25 Champions League and specifically there are 28 players chosen by Thiago Motta: 22 on List A and 6 on List B.
The surprise name è that of Arthur, considered until yesterday out of the Bianconeri project, which remains for all intents and purposes Filip Kostic, cut and looking for accommodation abroad.
The complete list:
LIST A
1 PERIN
3 BREMER
4 GATTI
5 LOCATELLI
6 DANILO
7 CONCEICAO
8 KOOPMEINERS
9 VLAHOVIC
11 NICO GONZALEZ
14 MILIK
15 KALULU
16 MCKENNIE
17 ADZIC
18 ARTHUR
19 THURAM
21 BEANS
22 WEAH
23 PINSOGLIO
26 DOUGLAS LUIZ
27 CAMBIASO
29 DI GREGORIO
32 CABAL
LIST B
10 YILDIZ
36 ANGHELE’
37 SAVONA
38 DAFFARA
40 ROUHI
51 MBANGULA
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Milan, the list
No Champions for Luka Jovic, who is not part of the list handed to Uefa regarding the players who can be fielded in the Champions League group stage.
In fact, Fonseca chose the men for the eight scheduled matches with Real Madrid, Liverpool, Brugge, Bayer Leverkusen, Red Star, Dinamo Zagreb, Girona and Slovan Bratislava, leaving the Serbian out.
LIST A
2 Davide Calabria
4 Ismael Bennacer
7 Alvaro Morata
8 Rubén Loftus-Cheek
10 Rafael Leao
11 Christian Pulisic
14 Tijjani Reijnders
16 Mike Maignan
17 Noah Okafor
19 Theo Hernandez
21 Samuel Chukwueze
22 Emerson Royal
23 Fikayo Tomori
24 Alessandro Florenzi
28 Malick Thiaw
29 Youssouf Fofana
31 Strahinja Pavlovic
42 Filippo Terracciano
46 Matteo Gabbia
57 Marco Sportiello
80 Yunus Musah
90 Tammy Abraham
LIST B
Adam Bakoune, Davide Bartesaghi, Andrea Bozzolan, Francesco Camarda, Andrei Coubis, Hugo Cuenca, Victor Eletu, Mattia Liberali, Vittorio Magni, Mattia Malaspina, Lapo Nava, Dorian Paloschi, Diego Sia, Dariusz Stalmach, Lorenzo Torriani, Chaka Traoré, Kevin Zeroli.
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