Tokyo 2020, Puglia superstar: “He has more medals than the USA”

Tokyo 2020, after the first day of the Olympics, the medal table sees Italy debut on the podium with a gold and a silver. And Puglia becomes today’s superstar on social media. The reason? The winners were Vito Dell’Aquila, the first Italian gold medal in taekwondo (cat. 58 kg) and the blue Luigi Samele, silver medal in the men’s individual saber. Both from Puglia, the 20-year-old Dell’Aquila is from Mesagne (Brindisi) while the fencer Samele is from Foggia, the two – underlines the attentive eye of Twitter users – at least for today they have the honor and the burden of having won the own region “more medals than the USA”, for now in fact still out of the medal table. But not only that: currently the region is also in second place in the standings for victories after China. Read also “Puglia is always certainty in fact the home of taralli, burrata, cacio-ricotta, Altamura bread, orecchiette, trash and the first medals at the Olympics”, comment users, while they launch a “petition to pass from the ‘board’ to the ‘medal table’ of Puglia “.