Tokyo 2020, golden athletics: “More space for us, there is not only football”

Less football, more athletics. After five gold medals in Tokyo 2020, the queen of sports demands more attention and more space in a football-centric country. “I am a football lover, I know that space for us will shrink after Tokyo and the media hype will drop. But this was an extraordinary Olympics from athletics and for this reason the boys deserve more attention even when there they are important competitions in Italy “, says the president of Federatletica (Fidal), Stefano Mei. “How can this result be improved? We need to increase the base. Bringing so many guys to Tokyo and seeing almost everyone arrive in optimal conditions is an important thing, even if someone accused us of having exaggerated in calling up the under 23. But why? The races make us grow and we have to broaden the base. Then maybe we go to Paris and we don’t win medals but we bring a greater number of athletes to the final “, he adds thinking about the 2024 Olympic appointment. The Tokyo 2020 successes are signed by the technical director Antonio La Torre.” Antonio is good, I don’t have to I’ll find out. He relied on him for this period and the group responded. If it will be confirmed? We’ll talk about it. Yesterday we joked about this: ‘Almost almost, we go to the conference we resign’ “