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Disappointed teams, Italy is out in the quarterfinals: it hadn’t happened since 1972

I’m Olympic Games, these, which leave a bit of disappointment. The golden triumphs of Gianmarco “Gimbo” tamberi and Marcell Jacobs nell’athletics – in the high jump and in the race of the races, the 100 meters -, they failed to push the blue teams to success, those teams that have always fleshed out the medal table sky blue.

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The fencing, for example, he disappointed most of the expectations, but even in team sports we have not been outdone, quite the contrary. The Setterosa and the football delegations have not even left for Tokyo, but now, to keep him company in Italy, there will also be the national team men’s volleyball, female, the one of basket and the Settebello: a debacle that hasn’t been seen in five-circle games since 1972, in Monaco, when all the blue representatives remained off the podium.

Disappointment for the national teams

SOFTBALL. It all started with the blues of softball. In the land of sushi and samurai they certainly did not arrive as the favorites, quite the contrary. In five games played at the Olympics, Italy failed to win one, and the icing on the cake was an 8-1 win against Canada. However, there will be time to make up for it.

ITALBASKET. For the men’s basketballinstead, it was good while it lasted. In a country focused on Euro 2020, the blues of mister Meo Bags they managed to snatch the scene for a few minutes and managed to qualify for the Olympic Games after 17 years. Even the last act, the quarter-finals against the France, it was a great spot for the wedge ball: no one gave up until the end. Someone, to tell the truth, also hoped for it. The last medal, however, is missing from Athens 2004.

MALE VOLLEYBALL. Immediately after basketball, there was also the elimination, again in the quarters, of the men’s volleyball. Osmany’s cries Juantorena, consoled by the eternal Ivan Zaytsev, will remain etched in our minds for a while, as well as the not too happy farewell of the coach of a thousand battles, Gianlorenzo “Chicco” Blengini. Al tie-break, l’Argentina had more and therefore the Olympic vice-champions of Rio 2016 have left the scene.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL. If Sparta cries, Athens does not laugh, however. And therefore also the national team of the flag-bearer Paola Egonu, one of the best volleyball players in the world, numbers in hand, surrendered to the quarterfinals (yes, they too) to Serbia. There is a bit more regret for women’s Italvolley, because they arrived as favorites in Tokyo. There will be Europeans to make up for.

WATER POLO. New lap, new race, even the Settebello by Alessandro Country against the Serbia said goodbye to an Olympic medal with elimination in the quarterfinals. The first two fractions of the game were fatal for the 2019 world champions in the tank today. They will have three years to prepare and attempt to improve the Brazilian bronze.

BEACH VOLLEY. Daniele Wolf and Paolo Nicolai they arrived at the quarter-final match against the Qatari world champions with high expectations. On their shoulders they carried the weight of the world of team sports. And they fought, the silver medals of Copacabana, to be able to reach at least the tie-break. Nothing, even for them, the fate of this Olympics on the contrary has issued the same verdict. Hi Tokyo, it was great.

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