Athletics: Tamberi competing in Ostrava tomorrow

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(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 30 – “I’m energized, ready to take to the platform with a great desire to win again. It is the last race before one of the events that I feel most in my heart in this 2022: I want at all costs find technical security to get to the Golden Gala on June 9 in Rome in the best possible conditions “. Gianmarco Tamberi leads the team of 13 Azzurri in the race tomorrow at the Golden Spike in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic.

For the Olympian of the high it is the fourth exit of the season in a few weeks, so far without the expected answers: at most 2.25 in Birmingham, after the 2.20 of the debut in Doha. In the Gold stage of the Continental Tour, ‘Gimbo’ therefore tries to get back on the road a few days after the opaque 2.15 on Saturday in Trieste.

Moreover, there is a gift to be made on the eve of his thirty years: “At thirty I still feel young, but perhaps I have become more experienced and wiser. I don’t think about any birthday party, at this moment I am concentrated only on competitions “. On the platform, in addition to the other jumper Fiamme Oro Silvano Chesani, he meets the Syrian Majd Eddin Ghazal, former world bronze medalist in London, the Brazilian Thiago Moura, the Belgian Thomas Carmoy, the Dutch Douwe Amels.

Among the Azzurri, weightlifter Zane Weir, fifth classified at the Tokyo Olympics, competing. On the track, it is the first 400 of the outdoor season for Edoardo Scotti. For the Italian 4×100 record holder Vittoria Fontana, the honor of competing against the queen of Olympic and world medals Allyson Felix in the 200 meters, to confirm the improvements of the first two outings. Lights also on the middle distance. In action the trio of blue hedges of the Tokyo Games: the twins Ala and Osama Zoghlami, making their seasonal debut on their specialty, and Ahmed Abdelwahed. There is the 100hs Olympic champion among the opponents of Luminosa Bogliolo, so far 12.99 in Savona: the Italian record holder (12.75 in Tokyo) confronts the Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and other obstacles of global caliber.

Meanwhile, the Roman Golden Gala will enjoy an extra-show, not included in the “diamond” program but certainly appea: Filippo Tortu, Fausto Desalu and Lorenzo Patta competing in the 200.

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