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“The stadium is wonderful; everything is light blue, like the official colour of Italian athletes and my braids”. The delight for competing at San Paolo Stadium, the official “theatre” of athletics at the 2019 Universiade, here in Naples, is almost contagious. Daisy Osakue, 23-year old Italian athlete from Turin, thinks about the future role that […]
“One day I hope to run faster than 53 seconds in the 400m race. As for all other competitions, the World Athletics Championship and the Olympics, we shall see”. At the first tournament in San Paolo Stadium, the venue for athletic competitions at the Napoli 2019 Universiade, Italian athlete Virginia Troiani has not crossed her […]
“Every sports competition taking place in Italy gives a special charge to the athletes: you feel the competition more deeply, everything is different, that is just the way it is: competing in Naples has a different taste. The city, in addition to being wonderful, has one of the most beautiful stadiums in the world”. Italian […]
“I am a particular girl. Besides my principal discipline, which is what I compete for in this Universiade and which I hope to bring to the 2020 Olympics, I practice bob as well. It is a winter sport which I will compete for in Beijing at first and then in Milan Cortina in 2026. This […]
“I dream to get to the final and win the gold medal”: Edward Gardeo Isaacs, South African athlete competing in the Men’s 400m at San Paolo Stadium, the main location for athletics at the 2019 Universiade, raises his hopes in light of his qualification on the morning of July 8th. The third in his heat […]