Olympics: Tamberi eliminated. For Italy silver in track cycling, bronze in rhythmic gymnastics and pentathlon. Marathon, Crippa 25th

Gianmarco Tamberi was eliminated from the high jump final of the Paris 2024 Olympics. The gold medallist in Tokyo failed to clear a measurement of 2.27. With Elia Viviani and Simone Consonni, Italy won the silver medal in the Madison track cycling event of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Gold to Portugal, bronze to Denmark. Our rhythmic gymnastics team won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics; gold medal to China's line-up, silver to Israel's five athletes. And again, for the modern pentathlon, Italy's Giorgio Malan won bronze behind Egypt's Elgendy, gold, and Japan's Sato, silver.

Gregorio Paltrinieri and Rossella Fiamingo will be Italy's flag-bearers at the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Sunday evening. Engaged since 2021, the two Italian athletes will parade together at the Stade de France waving the tricolour flag. The two have collected one gold (Fiamingo in the team epee), one silver and one bronze (Paltrinieri in the 1,500 sl and 800 sl) at these Games.

Meanwhile, people are already looking ahead to the next edition of the Games, to be held in Los Angeles in 2028: the organisers have announced that it will be a 'car-free' Olympics,

The Fidal medical staff 'following the examinations carried out by Gianmarco Tamberi in the early afternoon at a hospital in Paris', had verified the absence of 'absolute impediments to the athlete's participation in tonight's Olympic final'. Thus a note from Fidal. "I will be there" (I Will be there!): so the athlete with a new post on Instagram announces that he will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic high jump final. The post of the Italian flag-bearer is accompanied by a photo with a hood over his head and comes after the new kidney colic that had threatened to stop Tamberi's dream of repeating the Tokyo high jump gold medal, and the Italian tells of his desperation on Instagram. "It's all over..- he says in a message full of bitterness and mixed feelings - Tonight at 5 o'clock I woke up because of that same excruciating pain of a few days ago. Another kidney colic. Five hours have passed and still the pain does not go away. I managed to beat fate once after the injury in 2016, this time unfortunately I think he won. Will I still be on the piste tonight? Yes, but I really don't know how I will jump in this condition.

In un post Instagram l'atleta azzurro Gianmarco Tamberi, colpito da una colica renale e portato in ambulanza al pronto soccorso, Parigi (Francia), 10 agosto 2024. "Anche quella che era la mia ultima certezza sta per svanire..... Sono appena stato portato in pronto soccorso in ambulanza dopo aver vomitato due volte sangue" ha scritto Tamberi. INSTAGRAM/GIANMARCO TAMBERI +++ATTENZIONE LA FOTO NON PUO' ESSERE PUBBLICATA O RIPRODOTTA SENZA L'AUTORIZZAZIONE DELLA FONTE DI ORIGINE CUI SI RINVIA+++ NPK +++

"The first thing to assess is the health of the athlete and whether it is realistically even possible to compete, so the diagnosis is very important. Of course without going into the merits of the specific case" of Gianmarco Tamberi "that only doctors who have all the data available can properly assess. Moreover, to do certain performances you have to be at the limit of perfection, anything that disturbs the balance can compromise the result, especially when it is a matter of centimetres or hundredths of a second. Then there are some sports where it is easier to manage and you manage to compensate for certain situations, but it is not always possible'. This was explained to Adnkronos Salute by Andrea Bernetti, vice president of the Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Simfer), speaking on the latest social message posted by Gianmarco Tamberi, in the finals this evening at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the high jump, 'it's all over...Last night I had another kidney colic. It's been five hours and still the pain doesn't go away. I'm speechless, I'm so sorry. I'll still go on the piste, but I don't know how I'll be able to jump in this condition. "I believe however that he has enormous mental strength and that he exalts himself in the difficulties, let's hope so," concludes Bernetti, full professor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Salento.