The podium of Tokyo did not change it. Lucilla Boari, the first Olympic medal in history for Italy in the women’s archery, He always points at targets as he does when he shoots the arrow: first he observes, then he aims, finally he hits. His 2022 was not at the height of 2021, but metabolizing the Olympic bronze in Japan (20th medal of the Azzurri expedition, then Italy Team reached 40) was in the order of things. In short, the 25-year-old had almost foreseen a transition season to re-activate those motivational mechanisms necessary to play for new chances in an Olympic key. From this point of view, 2023 represents a fundamental turning point for the career of an athlete who was able to get up after the fourth place in Rio 2016 and continues to train with the aim of improving from competition to competition. The archer of the Golden Flames is in retreat with the national team at the Giulio Onesti Olympic Preparation Center and from here has taken stock of the recent past: “Certainly my life after that bronze in Tokyo has changed for the better. Even in myself I have changed, I have made an account of what happened. 2022 was a year of ups and downs in which I tried to take the good from what came, but still it was there after the great result of last year. Now I will go to Paris to take away other satisfactions and, why not, climb the Olympic podium “. In the coming months the ’97 class of Mantua will return to compete: “The appointments of 2023 will be pretty tough – has explained – there will be Olympic qualifying matches. The level of Italy in women’s archery? I would say it’s high, we have great potential, but other nations are growing too. The goal is to continue to play with everyone and be competitive at the highest levels “.
