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Italy closes with three bronze medals on final day of World Swimming Championships

Italy closes with three bronzes on the last day of the World Swimming Championships
The curtain falls on the World Swimming Championships in Doha and Italy is smiling: 12 medals were won by the Azzurri (three more than in Budapest 2022, the edition in which it had climbed the podium the most times) with Simona Quadarella who, with her two gold medals in the 1500 and 800 style è the real queen of the Italian expedition to Qatar. The last day in the pool saw Italy win three bronze medals, in the 50 breaststroke with Benedetta Pilato, in the 400 medley with a surprising Sara Franceschi and in the men’s 4×100 medley relay.
Benedetta Pilato took bronze in her 50 breaststroke, confirming her place on a rainbow podium from which she has è never been off since è in the national team. “A medal is always needed – smiles Benny, today called to the double commitment with the evening mixed relay that closes in sixth place – I am happy for the medal, forò I am sorry becauseé this is not è the best version of myself”. Pilato, after Federica Pellegrini (10) and Simona Quadarella (7), è became the third Italian to collect at least five individual podiums in the World Long Tub Championships.
A battery to save energy and a night to frame, loaded with revenge against bad luck. Sara Franceschi signs the feat you don’t expect and from lane 8 wins a crazy bronze, surprising opponents and moving her father and coach Stefano, who from the side of the pool seems to believe his eyes, and puts the Olympic pass in her pocket. A medal, against adversity, that of the multi-talented often stopped by injuries, the last one in October, in the moments when she had to take off and now she has done it in Qatar.
The gold è by Britain’s Freya Colbert and the silver by Israel’s Anastasia Gorbenko, who was then booed by the audience both at the time of poolside interviews and after the award ceremony. “I dedicate this medal to my grandfather Claudio, who è passed away exactly one year ago, and to my father Stefano who è always been close to me and who believed in me even in the difficult moments – Franceschi says – È an incredible medal, unexpected because I went through a not easy autumn. È also came the Olympic pass and ciò allows me to be moreù serene”. For Italnuoto è the second medal in the specialty and the second bronze: the first was won by Novella Calligaris in Belgrade 1973.
A bit of justifiable fatigue and a backstroke not as incisive as on recent occasions for Alberto Razzetti fifth in the 400 medley, after silver in the 200 butterfly and third place in the 200 medley for a top World Championship. “I was really tired today,” Razzetti commented, “I tried to surprise the opponents in the side lane but I didn't succeed. Too bad, becauseé I did not even go very far from third place. All in all, I am happy: a fifth place in the world championship. Busy week, positive balance sheet. I swam beyond my expectations. I am satisfied”.
The certainty of the Olympic Card in the morning and a sparkling bronze in the afternoon. The mixed 4×100 did not disappoint expectations and climbed to the lowest step of the podium, returning there after the gold of Budapest 2022, dragged by two champions and galvanized by two youngsters swimming in 3’31″59. Ahead were only the United States in 3’29″80 and the Netherlands in 3’31″23. Of the highest level was the final of the Italians. Michele Lamberti (54″28) changes to the sixth place; Nicolò Martienghi inserts the turbo (57″97) and goes up to the third; position that maintain a surprising Gianmarco Sansone (52″14) and Alessandro Miressi (47″20) that thanks to a last fifty in 25″19 also caresses the possible overtaking on the Dutch.
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Milan, Tammy Abraham sheds light on her future

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’t 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”

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”t 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

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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