Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TOKYO – Ci sono medaglie attese, ma che non arrivano. E medaglie inaspettate, che hanno un sapore speciale. Quella di Giorgia Bordignon (nella foto), argento olimpico nel sollevamento pesi, nella categoria sino ai 64kg, è certamente una di queste. L’atleta azzurra 34enne, alla sua seconda e probabilmente ultima Olimpiade, porta a casa…
TOKYO – July 27, 2021: Italian swimming sensation, Federica Pellegrini, made history at Tokyo 2020 on Tuesday by qualifying for the Olympic final in the 200 meters freestyle for the fifth consecutive time. No woman swimmer had ever achieved this feat before, in the same event, and only Michael Phelps has done it among the men. →
TOKYO – “Questo oro è dedicato a mio nonno, che non c’è più da un mese e stasera mi guardava da lassù: ero certo che avrei vinto”. Sono state queste le prime parole di Vito Dell’Aquila – vent’anni, pugliese nativo di Mesagne, in provincia di Brindisi – diventato campione olimpico di Taekwondo e prima medaglia d’oro per la spedizione azzurra a Tokyo…
TORONTO – July 25, 2021: 20-year-old Italy’s Vito Dell’Aquila (in the pic) beat 19-year-old Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi of Tunisia 16-12 to win the Olympic gold medal in the men’s 58 kg taekwondo final at Tokyo 2020, the very first gold for the Azzurri’s Team in Japan. →
The list of those who distinguished themselves in the four-week soccer tournament did not include England and its English fans. Yes, it is important to win in a sport that demands great technical skill, stamina, ability to follow a strategic plan, to move forward or retreat and be poised to seize opportunities all while being the ultimate team player. Such is life; such is soccer. →
