Paris 2024 Olympics, Tommaso Marini makes no peace: ‘My fault’

Tommaso Marini makes mea culpa

It's a bitter day, Monday, for Tommaso Marini: the Italian fencer, number 1 on the scoreboard of the foil tournament, è in fact, he was surprisingly defeated in the quarterfinals by Frenchman Maxime Pauty, who was able to impose himself at the last hit against the Marche player, winning 15-14.

To the official channels of Federscherma, Marini expressed all his disappointment, taking responsibility for the defeat: "Unfortunately, I made several mistakes and paid for these errors dearly – he said. Pauty è a strong athlete but not of my level as the results say, è my fault. He took advantage of my mistakes and black-out".

"There are many factors that can influence a match – added the blue foilist – and he è managed to win also thanks to this environment, to a warm cheer, but I could have done it anyway. I am sorry because è I have been sacrificing so much for such an important goal for four years. This è was my first Olympics and I was excited and unfortunately è it went like thisì".

The expectations that Italian fencing had placed in Tommaso Marini were very high: world and European champion in individual foil, the Marche native was the main favorite for the gold medal in Paris: the defeat in the quarterfinals against Pauty però put an end to the Olympic dream, at least as far as the individual tournament was concerned.