Luckily in the European Championships ARTISTIC the Italians – from Dogpells to the Curtis and the square – and Italian Nicholas Martinenghi They have collected gold medals and records. And fortunately in the European Athletics Championships the Battocletti she confirmed herself as the queen of middle distance running, without forgetting the gold in the high jump Gianmarco Tamberi, that of the marchers Massimo Stano and Sofia Fiorini, that of the weightlifter Leonardo Fabbri, and the one in the triple jump of Andy Diaz and Dariya DerkachOtherwise we would have spent the summer complaining about the heat after having downplayed climate change and getting bored with the squalid, cloying and opaque affair Lavitola-Ranucci As if Italy were only that of an unscrupulous fixer in and out of prison and a television host in whose professional alphabet, fractional bias has replaced meticulous impartiality. The political implications of the case are not lost on us, but it's hard to understand how the news programs and major newspapers can dedicate pages and pages and sensational headlines to the Lavitola-Ranucci story. Yet there are no lines at the newsstands of people wanting to know the latest on the affair. Is it the heat or the rarity of the newsstands? Or something else? Investigative journalism once belonged to masters of the caliber of Sergio Zavoli o Enzo Biagi. We have fallen so low that we have to put up with a falsely investigative journalism like that of Ranucci, where – as in the world of Donald Trump – Can't you ever tell what's fact and what's fiction? And how sad to see political leaders bickering for or against Ranucci.
Luckily, however, summer also gives us another Italy: that of the new sports champions, from Jannik Sinner in tennis at Kimi Antonelli in motorsports and, more recently, to Nadia Battocletti in athletics, Chiara Pellacani in diving, and Sara Curtis in swimming. They are all legendary champions, but what we love about them is their lifestyle: never over the top, always honest, happy, and proud to win. In sports, but not only. They are the standard-bearers of the best of Italy.
