The blues of foil beaten by Japan in the quarters. Malagò thunders: “Very badly, there will be reflections”
Another, sensational disaster of Italian fencing in the last match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: the team of men’s foil it was immediately eliminated. In the quarter-finals, the Azzurri (Alessio Foconi, Daniele Garozzo and Giorgio Avola who replaced the injured Andrea Cassarà) were defeated by Japan 45-44.
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“The level is very high: from these Olympics it is evident, by now the world has taken us”. Like this Giorgia Avola tried to explain the sensational elimination of the men’s foil team. “For me – he added – it was a nightmare. I didn’t think of ending in this way”. The team foil competition was the last in fencing, and Italy closed without gold. “We will have to do an analysis to understand what happened”, admitted Alessio Foconi.
Also Giovanni Malagò he could only underline the disappointing performance of a sport that had accustomed us well in the past. “The bad fencing, definitely bad. Today was the last day to have a hope of doing something important and instead we are not even in the medal area. It is something that embitters us so much, this will surely lead to reflections on it”, he said the president of Coni.
By return of post came the reply of Paolo Azzi, president of Federscherma. “The balance cannot be satisfactory, all the more so after the elimination of the team foil, which burns. Gold is missing, and this weighs, and there are no specialty medals from which it was legitimate to expect them: but – has added Azzi – with a cool head we will also see the positive elements “. Starting with the young. “From today the Olympic hierarchies are zeroed: the young will try to undermine the old, the old to defend their place. I only hope that international activity will return to normal in order to put them to the test”.
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