A different edition which, for once, leaves aside the great athletes to give space to the new recruits, to the structures where they train and to those who manage them
“This year we wanted to give a particular cut. In the previous editions the great champions were awarded, today the companies are awarded, i.e. those who carry out a very important activity in the area, the managers, who do an incredible job away from the cameras and the front pages and as many as 45 young people under 14, participants at the Coni Trophy. Guys who, despite the difficulties dictated by the pandemic, have had the strength to react and give prestige to Livorno and Italian sport”. With these words the regional delegate of Coni John Giannone describes the ceremony related to Day Olympic (Click on the white icon on a blue background above the title to consult the photo gallery) conducted by the journalist Simon Poggianti. In front of a room packed with institutions, civil, military and sports, including the president of the municipal council Peter Caruso and the regional president of Coni Simon Cardullo, many young people and executives were honored with Coni honors. “All cities – adds the mayor Luca Salvetti – have a soul, even if for many it is difficult to understand its characteristics. Siena, for example, has the Palio, a rigid membership of a creed religious or secular. Florence has an existence connected to creative and intellectual genius. And then there’s Livorno, a light-hearted, carefree soul who laughs, and who has the ability to see who comes from outside, like a person from the community, with whom to confront. A connection that comes immediately with sport, a desire to challenge oneself and others and which allows us to be a city with over 600 medals won and a large number of clubs present. To ensure that this continues over time, it is advisable to have adequate and functional structures, a difficult path, which we are trying to continue over time”. Here is the list of the highest honors awarded: center Piombino Athletics (Golden Star), Costa Etrusca Athletics Youth Club (silver star), Ottorino Lolini, Alessandro Tanzini, Canoe Club Livorno, Amateur sports group Rugby Cecina Asd, Piombino Swimming Society (bronze star), Roberto Catalucci, Armando Mansani (bronze palm)Joao Capistrano Maria Bussotti Never Junior, Giuseppe Giudicelli, Simone Iannattoni, Alessia Niotta (bronze medal). Here is the list of young awardees: Gioia Costa, Niccolò Mauro, Mirko Malaggese, Lorenzo Sardi (cycling – Elba Bike)Luca Romano, Guenda Peria (archery – The bows of the great falcon)Geneva Damiani (agility dog – Superdog)Raul Fortunato (Spes Fortitude)Morgana Knives (Salvemini Boxing)Leonardo Paladini (Old school boxing) [pugilato]Alice Cappelli, Pietro Cavicchioli, Francesco Rossi (sup – Shaka surf&sup school)Olimpia Baggiani, Carolina Rossi (table tennis – Bernini table tennis Livorno)Michael Baggiani, Gioele Chiavacci, Sara LaRocca, Roman Lymar, Elio Meloni (fight – Group of wrestlers from Livorno)Christian Cagliari (Judo Fujiyama)Mia Magnani (Judo Piombino)Nicolas Milana (Cecina’s judo frog)[judo]Thomas Banti (clay pigeon shooting – La Torre clay pigeon shooting)Berrighi Birhashwaira (Etruscan Coast Athletics)Sofia Cosci (Leghorn athletics)[atletica leggera]Anuar Kammakh (Leghorn Aquatics)Oliviero Bertolucci, Sofia Giunta, Anna Pollini (Livorno Triathlon)[triathlon]Joele Benedetti, Davide Moscatiello, Andrea Palumbo, Samuele Peruzzi (checkers – Piero Piccioli checker club from Livorno)Anna Masi (Quercianella Nautical Club)Gabriele Ocean Salvadori (Antignano sailing club)[vela]Matteo Casavecchia, Elena Picchi (fencing – Fides fencing circle)Rebecca and Samuele Monticelli (sports dance – Danzamania Cecina)Theresa De Maio, Naomi Lombardi, Giulia Filippi, Laila Sayed Tawfik (basket – Jolly Acli Basket) and Aurora Donati (rugby – Leghorn Rugby).
