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Paralympics 2021, Italy with 113 athletes in Tokyo: Bebe Vio standard bearer

A record shipping with boom for women. The blue delegation that will leave for Tokyo Paralympics, scheduled from 24 August to 5 September 2021 it will in fact be formed by 113 athletes engaged in 16 of the 22 disciplines envisaged: athletics, badminton, canoeing, rowing, cycling, horse riding, judo, swimming, fencing, sitting volley, table tennis, weight lifting, taekwondo, target shooting, archery, triathlon, with the participation of the badminton athlete and further adjustments thereafter to departure for the Games: “It is the largest delegation ever, and for the first time women, 61, exceed the number of men, 51. We have already achieved a double historical result “, the words of Luca Pancalli, number one of the Cip.

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The delegation will be led by the two standard bearer Beatrice Vio (fencing) e Federico Morlacchi (I swim). “We are preparing to experience this Paralympic edition of Tokyo with the awareness of being able to do well. It will be a more complex Olympics, the difficulties are many. They are for the Olympians – admits Pancalli – let alone for athletes with even severe disabilities. , some athletes, due to their pathologies, they have not yet been able to vaccinate. As a sportsman I perceived this extraordinary shared passion making no distinction between the Olympic and Paralympic world. Olympics and Paralympics now, compared to a certain narrative, live only, we too will leave immediately after our Olympic colleagues and I ask Giovanni to warm the atmosphere “, joked the number one of the CIP addressed to the president of Coni, Malagò.

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