Paris 2024 Olympics, an indescribable silver for Carlo Tacchini and Gabriele Casadei
The words of Carlo Tacchini and Gabrile Casadei after their silver medal in the C2 500
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Gabriele Casadei and Carlo Tacchini gave Italy its third medal of the day. The two Italian athletes, in fact, placed second in the Pairs Canoe sprint event at the Paris 2024 Olympics behind China and beating Spain third in a sprint. At the end of the test, the two Italians, at the microphones of "Sky Sport", did not hide their amazement at the result achieved.
"It's an indescribable thrill, we beat crews like Germany and the Russians that we didn't think we could challenge. Them off the podium and us second è something hallucinating" these are the hot words of Carlo Tacchini.
"Nice that we made us round figure with the 30th medal for Italy. These are indescribable emotions, è it was a fantastic race, perfect in everything, The closing that è our best part è went perfectly. We turned around and saw Italy second. It was a show" these, the statements of Gabriele Casadei.
Italy won a total of 40 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a new record for haul in a single edition of the Games. Ten gold medals, as many silver medals and 20 bronze medals as well. Will the Azzurri be able to do better in France?