Month: July 2021

Sciabola d’argento, Montano eroico

TOKYO – Aldo Montano chiude la sua lunghissima e strepitosa carriera di schermidore con una grande prestazione in pedana, sfiorando l’impresa insieme ai suoi compagni della sciabola. Lo schermidore livornese, alla soglia dei 43 anni, ha conquistato infatti l’argento nella sciabola a squadre insieme ai compagni Luca Curatoli, Enrico Berrè e Luigi Samele, sfiorando l’alloro più prestigioso… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>

Aldo Montano closes his amazing fencing career with a silver in Tokyo

TORONTO – July 28, 2021: “Is it an endless career? It’s a finished career.” Like this Aldo Montano he replies, smiling, to journalists after winning the silver medal in the men’s team saber in Tokyo 2020 which ends his long career. I think it is right to arrive here, I have waited a year longer than I had planned, I have suffered a lot because I have a lot of problems and pains. That’s okay. It was a really difficult and complicated year and I had to manage a serious problem and it is a joy to have arrived here, competitive and to have given my contribution. Take home this medal that I feel I have helped the boys to conquer it all. It was wonderful to end a career like this “, added the blue champion who closes with a medal on the day Federica Pellegrini competed for the last time in the Games in her 200 freestyle. (more…)