All the athletes of the Italian team at the Olympics

The blue team for the Tokyo Olympics has 384 athletes in total, almost equally distributed. There are 198 men and 186 women with 14 reserves (8 men and 6 women). Italy will be present in 36 different disciplines. Certainly the total absences stand out in football, where the men’s national team has just won the European Championships and the women’s team is establishing itself as one of the emerging realities on the international scene. Or the absence in the boxing of male athletes, all unable to snatch the Olympic pass. Italy does not even compete in Baseball and Badminton, sports in which a great international experience is still lacking.

The blue team of Athletics full of very young and talented athletes, many of them of exotic origins: many of these athletes, despite their obviously “imported” surname, were born in Italy and compete proudly with the blue colors on their chest. In lotta instead the only two competitors lined up by Italy are two athletes of Caribbean origin, one of which is the great Frank Chamizo. And then there are the national teams of Volleyball both male and female, the national team of basket men returning to Olympic glory after 17 years, the Settebello of water polo (unfortunately the legendary Setterosa didn’t make it this time), the squadrons of fencing e threw and the samples of I swim, boating, canoeing, weight lifting, cycling etc etc

Azzurri: Complete list of all Italian athletes in Tokyo 2020

VIRGILIO SPORT | 07-16-2021 11:45

Source: ANSA