Paris 2024: Long Distance Swimming, Taddeucci Bronze in 10km
Italian Ginevra Taddeucci won the bronze medal by swimming the women’s 10 km long distance swimming in the Seine at the Paris 2024 Games with a time of 2:03.42.8. Gold for Dutch Sharon van Rouwendaal in 2:03.34.2 and silver for Australian Moesha Johnson in 2:03.39.7. Sixth place for the other Italian Giulia Gabbrielleschi.
Ginevra Taddeucci, of the Fiamme Oro, won a fabulous bronze in the 10 km open water race in the suggestive, but much-discussed, setting of the Seine between Pont Alexandre III and Pont de l’Alma. The Italian remained in the top positions from the start, in a very narrow race course where overtaking was practically impossible. Twenty-four athletes at the start for the 6 laps of the quadrilateral formed by four 1670-meter buoys in the Seine between Pont Alexandre III and Pont de l’Alma. Water temperature around 20° and therefore the use of wetsuits was avoided.
A tough and complex race from the start, then at 6.6 km, with two laps to complete, three of them break away. Johnson takes the lead in 1’22″02″1, then Van Rouwendaal at +3.0 and Taddeucci at +8.3. Then twenty seconds behind the rest of the group with Gubecka, Cunha and Gabbrielleschi, also Fiamme Oro, on the same line. At 8.3 km Johnson, Van Rouwendaal and Taddeucci increase the advantage to over thirty seconds on Cunha, Gabbrielleschi and Gubecka. A long sprint begins with the three in front who now have an unbridgeable advantage with the final breakaway of Van Rouwendaal who changes the line and overtakes Johnson, with Taddeucci who stays in the slipstream and finishes third. Van Rouwendaal returns to the roof of the Games six years after the triumph in Rio 2016; Johnson is silver and Taddeucci wins a well-deserved bronze.
Paris 2024: Water Polo, Appeal Under Consideration at the Appeals Jury for the Replay of Italy-Hungary
The appeal presented by the Italian Swimming Federation after the disputed refereeing decisions that occurred during the men’s water polo match between Italy and Hungary, valid for the quarter-finals of the Paris 2024 Games, the appeals jury is currently examining the case. The appeals jury this morning summoned Francesco Condemi and a Federation official who are still waiting to be heard.
Paris 2024: Water Polo, Condemi heard by jury appeal on Italy-Hungary
It could lead to a sensational replay of the match – After the Italian Water Polo team lost on penalties against Hungary in the quarterfinals of the Paris 2024 tournament, a match that sparked heated controversy over the referee’s decisions, and the Italian Francesco Condemi was sent off for violent play, after the team’s protests were rejected on the field, this morning at 8:30 – as far as we know – the appeal jury will hear Condemi himself in person. A sensational replay of the match is expected, which would reopen the Olympic dream of the Settebello.
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