Tokyo: Tortu, the final of the 100 and relay the objectives

"My goal? To reach the final in both the 100 meters and the 4 x 100 relay." Word of the sprinter, Filippo Tortu, the first Italian to drop below 10 seconds on 100 meters, at his first Olympics, just before embarking from Fiumicino on the flight that will take him to Japan together with the rest of the blue group departing today. "I think we have excellent opportunities to do well with the relay, a race that I particularly care about - he explained - We went to Formia just to prepare and refine it: in my opinion it is the most exciting race in athletics, precisely because it is the most unpredictable. . We hope it will bring us some surprises. " "Whether Covid will affect these Games? It will undoubtedly affect them - he added - it is enough to see how we are starting;we had to go through a whole series of procedures to go to Japan. There will be no contacts. They will certainly be different Games from the others, even if this is my first Olympics. However, I still prefer these Games conditioned by Covid - concludes Tortu smiling - rather than staying at home in August ".