Paris 2024 Olympics, Italvolley girls in celebration: it’s semifinals!
An unprecedented and historic semifinal.
Italy women’s volleyball hits a historic semifinal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, unprecedented in the history of Italian volleyball. It finished 26-24 25-20 25-20 against a traditional opponent Serbia, scrambled for three sets to zero. The next commitment for Julio Velasco’s girls will be against Turkey.
Prior to the crushing victory over Serbia, women's volleyball Italy had moreover beaten Turkey itself 3-0. "I expected a more difficult match, I am honest. Today we è everything went well and we enjoy the 3-0 that I honestly did not think would come in this way, because è Turkey è a very strong team, which now maybe has some problems, so è I would not like to find them again in the tournament. I don’t like to play again with teams already faced", coach Julio Velasco had said.
On Tuesday, the haul of the Italian expedition to the Paris 2024 Olympics had already been enriched. It was Mattia Furlani who had given the Azzurri a medal, the first of the event in athletics: his bronze came in the long jump. Monday, on the other hand, had greeted the gold of Diana Bacosi and Gabriele Rossetti in the mixed skeet and the great feat in gymnastics, with the resounding gold of Alice D'Amato and the bronze of Manila Esposito in the beam.
The medal count in Paris 2024, after Furlani's exploit, rises to a total of 26 for the Italian expedition. Italy had won a total of 40 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a new record for spoils in a single edition of the Games. On that occasion, there had been 10 gold medals, as many silver medals and 20 bronze medals.
