The Italian and the sport
Sport is certainly one of the main interests of the Italians, in fact, there are three national newspapers that deal with sport.
A recent search shows that the football stays the undisputed winner among the most popular sports in Italy in the 2016.
In addition to football, cycling is much followed, which has its most famous event in the "Giro d'Italia", a race in stages across the peninsula and held every year between the end of May and the first days of June. Not only Italian athletes participate in this competition, but also cyclists from all over the world.
Another Italian passion is motoring. The Formula 1 world championship is much followed.
A recent search shows that the football stays the undisputed winner among the most popular sports in Italy in the 2016.
In addition to football, cycling is much followed, which has its most famous event in the "Giro d'Italia", a race in stages across the peninsula and held every year between the end of May and the first days of June. Not only Italian athletes participate in this competition, but also cyclists from all over the world.
Another Italian passion is motoring. The Formula 1 world championship is much followed.
Football is not the only sport in which the italia to gotten its moments of glory, Italy has gotten more than few memorable successes.
We remember Pietro Mennea, Olympic champion of the 200 plain meters in Moscow 1980 with once of 19 "72 that, it still constitutes the European record.
Nicknamed "Arrow of the South", it is the only athlete of the history that is qualified for four consecutive Olympic endings.
Trebisonda Valla, said Ondina, has been an Italian athlete, Olympic champion of the 80 meters hinders in Berlin 1936, as well as the first Italian woman to win a gold medal to the Olympic Games.
Angelo Fausto Coppi has been an Italian bicyclist.
Nicknamed "il Campionissimo" or "the heron", he was the most famous and winning athlete of the gold epoch of the bicycling and one are considered of the greatest and popular athletes of every time.
He won five times the Turn of Italy (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953), the first bicyclist becoming also to conquer the two competitions in the same year.
He became champion of the world in the 1953.
Nicknamed "il Campionissimo" or "the heron", he was the most famous and winning athlete of the gold epoch of the bicycling and one are considered of the greatest and popular athletes of every time.
He won five times the Turn of Italy (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953), the first bicyclist becoming also to conquer the two competitions in the same year.
He became champion of the world in the 1953.
Paralympic Games
In 1958 it is decided to make to dispute the first games paralimpici in the same city organizer of the Olympiads, therefore Rome becomes the crib of the Paralimpiadis.
The minister of the Health officially opens the Games Paralimpici in Rome 1960 to the stadium of the Acquacetosa.
400 athletes in wheelchair, in representation of 23 countries they unthread in front of 5000 spectators.
The most numerous delegation is that Italian.
The minister of the Health officially opens the Games Paralimpici in Rome 1960 to the stadium of the Acquacetosa.
400 athletes in wheelchair, in representation of 23 countries they unthread in front of 5000 spectators.
The most numerous delegation is that Italian.
Beatrice Vio is one of the athletes more known and influential Italian paralimpiche: she practises the fencing from the 5 year-old age and from 2011 she has won all the most important tournaments of fencing from the National championships to the Europeans and the World ones.
To 11 years she gets sick of fulminating meningitis and the doctors must amputated her legs and forearms.
Despite all the difficulties she has achieved unbelievable results:
In 2014 to the Europeans she is awarded the gold and in the same year she wins another gold to the world ones.
That same year is delivered her the prize as Italian Paralympic Award from the Italian Committee Paralimpico.
In the 2015 she conquest the gold medal to the World ones.
The most unbelievable results arrive in 2016, when to the XV Games Paralimpici of Rio de Janeiro she wins the gold medal of the individual test.
On September 2016 she conquest the bronze medal in the test to teams.
"To be special means really to succeed in making to understand that your weak point becomes that of which you go fiercer".
To 11 years she gets sick of fulminating meningitis and the doctors must amputated her legs and forearms.
Despite all the difficulties she has achieved unbelievable results:
In 2014 to the Europeans she is awarded the gold and in the same year she wins another gold to the world ones.
That same year is delivered her the prize as Italian Paralympic Award from the Italian Committee Paralimpico.
In the 2015 she conquest the gold medal to the World ones.
The most unbelievable results arrive in 2016, when to the XV Games Paralimpici of Rio de Janeiro she wins the gold medal of the individual test.
On September 2016 she conquest the bronze medal in the test to teams.
"To be special means really to succeed in making to understand that your weak point becomes that of which you go fiercer".