Parigi 2024, le Olimpiadi della rivoluzione francese

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Olympic and Paralympic Dreams: Together We Can

Celebration with the Allianz Ambassador athletes and their eight medals won in Paris - Antonio Fantin's lesson: "You fall, you study the obstacle and you understand how to overcome it".

by Maria Luisa Colledani

Da sinistra a destra: Sofia Raffaeli, Giulia Ghiretti, Gianfelice Facchetti, Alice Volpi, Maurizio Devescovi, Antonio Fantin, Giacomo Campora, Giorgia Villa, Thomas Ceccon

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The Paris Paralympics also arrived in Milan, at the Allianz Tower. Paris was the event that the French Organising Committee wanted to be identical to the Games, choosing a unique logo, a unique mascot. As if it were the twin event of the Five Circles.

The insurance group, which has a worldwide agreement with the IOC for one billion dollars, celebrated the Olympic and Paralympic athletes of the project 'A dream called Paris 2024'. The Azzurri Thomas Ceccon, Antonio Fantin, Giulia Ghiretti, Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine, Sofia Raffaeli, Giorgia Villa and Alice Volpi are the virtual Team Allianz, all in the Fiamme Oro, almost a team within a team in which the Olympic and Paralympic worlds merge and mingle, running for the same goal. To enjoy sport, to compete, to win. Childish dreams come of age.

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After the greetings of the CEO of Allianz, Giacomo Campora, "Allianz is proud to be at the side of great Italian sport", and of the President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, with a view also to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games, here are the athletes who spoke with Gianfelice Facchetti in a great celebration of sport, the ideal continuation of the seven docufilms made before the French event (look them up and watch them with your children and grandchildren!).

Medals around his neck, training to be resumed, new goals, starting with Thomas Ceccon, gold in the 100 backstroke: "I'll leave the medal at home, I wouldn't want it to be stolen. After the victory, there are new goals but - if it were up to me - I would live on a remote island and only do what I love: swim. And win, as if programmed for that sole purpose.

Alice Volpi, silver in team foil: "It was an unpredictable competition, the Americans were very strong and I am proud of our silver medal. I also had the responsibility of my partner Daniele (Garozzo, ndr.), two Olympic medals in foil and stopped a few months before the Games due to a heart problem".

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Giulia Ghiretti, gold in the 100 breaststroke SB4: 'There were 80 friends and relatives in Paris, their presence made my medal unforgettable. It is not the medals that make the courses, but the sharing".

Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine, with a video message: 'Even those who did not win (he went out in the round of 16 in the 92 kg category, ndr.) find a way to get to the top step: I won because I realised that I have a lot to prove'.

Giorgia Villa, silver medallist in women's artistic team gymnastics, 96 years after Italy's last success at the Games in 1928: 'I had given up Tokyo due to injury and in Paris we wrote a piece of history with my teammates'. How far she has come since the day when, at the age of 3, her mother took her to the gym and told her: 'Let off steam here, you break everything at home'.

Antonio Fantin, one gold and one silver medal at the Paris Paralympics: 'Dreams are goals with an expiry date and we are obliged to face obstacles. We fall, study the obstacle and figure out how to overcome it. We want to walk and obstacles do not scare us'.

Sofia Raffaeli, bronze medallist in individual rhythmic gymnastics: 'I arrived in Paris with high expectations after years in which I had won a lot. I also came from a change of coach, which is never an easy moment to overcome, but I did it and I learnt that from difficult phases come beautiful things".

Like the eight medals (one gold, two silver and two bronze at the Games; two gold and one silver at the Paralympics) that the virtual Allianz Team has won, doing much better than entire nations. It is the strength of sport with a view to Milan-Cortina 2026, an event to which Allianz will arrive "developing together with our partners - as Maurizio Devescovi, general manager of Allianz Spa, recalled - initiatives for integration and social inclusion with our Allianz UMANA MENTE Foundation, which has projects dedicated to people with disabilities".

The 2026 Winter Games are the day after tomorrow and who knows, maybe they will mark another step in a possible dream: Olympic and Paralympic Games together. Paris has shown that it is possible in the name of sport, inclusion and a fairer and more equal society.

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