2024-08-05 22:44:45
UPDATE. The appeal jury decided to accept the appeal of the Kenya team that makes Nadia Battocletti slip again to fourth place, returning the silver to the Kenyan Kypyegon. The counter-appeal of the Fidal was rejected. The Italian’s podium therefore seems to have lasted only two hours. A mockery, which however does not take anything away from the technical depth of the great feat accomplished by the athlete from Trentino.
PARIS. The Monday evening of athletics offers a ‘yellow’ with a bronze final for Italy. It happens on Women’s 5,000 meterswhere with a sensational race, including an Italian record with a time of 14’31’’64 Nadia Battocletti from Cavareno (val di Non) she stays in the wake of the Kenyans Chebet and Kypiegon and the Dutch Hassan and places fourth.
Shortly after the dramatic turn of events: the judges of the competition noticed a exchange of blows on the straight of the penultimate lap between Kipyegon and Tsegay, probably the result not only of the excitement of the race but also of the eternal rivalry between Ethiopia and Kenya and establish that the Ethiopian (who grimaces in pain) was certainly damaged and squalificano Faith Kipyegon who had finished in second place, behind her Kenyan compatriot Beatrice Chebet and ahead of the Dutch Sifan Hassan, who went from bronze to silver.
So Battocletti, who in the meantime cries with joy for the placement and even just for the fourth place, finds himself on the podium but ‘holds back’: “We’re waiting for the outcome of the appeal, in the meantime I’ll keep this race. I’m very happy for my race, my legs are turning and if I’m well I’ll aim to do the ten thousand meters too. I thank all those who support me”.
Now we await Kenya’s appeal and the response from the World Athletics judges.
2024-08-05 22:44:45