Mattia Furlani is in disbelief after writing the story

The incredulity over the feat is accompanied by a precise race tactic.

Mattia Furlani rewrote the history of Italian athletics, winning a historic bronze in the long jump at the Paris 2024 Olympics that not only represents the first Italian medal in athletics at this edition of the Games, but also the first in the discipline since 1984. Not only that, the very young Latium (è born in 2005) becomes the earliest athlete to win a medal for Italy in the past 100 years.

The awareness of the feat è was clear from the words Furlani chose in his hot interview with 'Sky Sport': "Winning the bronze medal today è was really incredible. I really put everything into it on the platform, until the last push. È it was something really exciting and now I am exhausted, because I really gave everything I could give. È incredible".

The fact that I won a medal at the Olympics when è still in junior age, forò, è something Furlani admitted he had to finish realizing: "Still not quite. Becauseé I was so focused on trying to give my best that I mentally cut myself off from everything. I could see the empty stadium, I could only see my mother. An impressive feeling, the medal at the Olympics è something that until two years ago I could not even imagine".

Despite her excitement and young age, however, Furlaniès race strategy was crystal clear: "On each jump I waited a lot for the wind to drop, or maybe turn a little bit in my favor and adjust. In fact, as you è saw in the jumps, I waited a lot. I did it just for the wind, hoping it would have a positive and not a negative effect on my performance. Today forò it was untameable".