Photo finish medal for Italy in the 5000 meter short track relay.
The Azzurri won the bronze medal by beating the Russian relay at the photo finish.
Gold went to Canada, silver to Korea.
"A heart-pounding, exhilarating and throbbing medal. When you win with a relay it is always a pride for the country because it is a demonstration of the strength of the movement": so Giovanni Malagò, president of Coni, commented on the bronze of the men's short track relay , followed by the grandstand.
"Tonight I was really excited because the photo finish always leaves you with a further suspense than the thrills of the race itself. Congratulations to the guys: they believed in it as I believed in it since the beginning of these Games. And then, since it is the race itself. my hundredth Olympic medal, it is a bronze that gives me even more satisfaction.
With the bronze of the men's 5000 meters short track relay, Italy's medal table at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games is enriched, with -4 from the end: now the count is 14 medals, the result of 2 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronzes.
He celebrates, also on a personal level, Giovanno Malago ': for him that of Pietro Sighel, Yuri Confortola, Tommaso Dotti, Andrea Cassinelli is in fact the hundredth Olympic medal as president of Coni, or from 2013 to today.
The bronze of the short track relay not only transforms the Beijing 2022 expedition into the second most medalized blue edition in history (after Lillehammer 1994 with 20 podiums and equal merit with Albertville 1992), but also gives the "number one" of Italian sport joy to reach round figure.
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Italy had so far won 8 medals in Sochi 2014 (6 silvers and 2 bronzes), 28 in Rio 2016 (8 golds, 12 silvers and 8 bronzes), 10 in PyeongChang 2018 (3 golds, 5 silvers and 2 bronzes), 40 in Tokyo 2020 (10 golds, 10 silvers and 20 bronzes) and with today's 14 in Beijing 2022 (2 golds, 6 silvers and 6 bronzes).
Overall, therefore, in these nine years the Azzurri have won 23 golds, 39 silvers and 38 bronzes.