20/05/2019   Rocroi 19 May 1643: 376 years later






Who knows how the Gran Condè, Luigi II of Bordone, slept after the historic battle of Rocroi on May 19, 1643 ?

 
Our personal friend Antonio La Torre does not think bad for us if today Marcia dal Mondo exactly 376 years later humbly asks him about the past night.
 
Alytus is not a land accustomed to Dom Perignon, but it can now also be found in the land of Lithuania. Without it, perhaps we could have consoled ourselves with a good glass of Balsam, a typical bitter taste of the Baltic areas that spreads in hotels in the Bristonas zone.
 
A success therefore, that of Alytus, which like all moments of glory (and crisis) must be analyzed and above all metabolized.
 
Eve saw us with three top athletes.
 
Eleonora Anna Giorgi.
 
The step taken at the end of the 2018 season was those that in corporate jargon call themselves "new managerial experiences".
It was worth taking it up if along with the new training methods there had also been a new technical interpretation of that race walk that so annoyed the juries.
Humility and sacrifice were the winning weapons, but we had already said it after the victory of Podebrady.
This is a kind of walk that gives the athlete a sufficient dose of tranquility when she passes in front of the judge's eyes.
Giorgi comes home with a European record, which we don't believe will be last long.
The ingredients to see it collapse are all there.
Rating: 9 (10 only if she broke 4:00:00)
 
Massimo Stano.
 
The normality is not a continuous series of victories, but some victories, some minor medals and some defeats. Sometimes others are even better than us.
Up to 15km with the leading group, then slowly in the last 4km when it was a matter of walking on a base of 4:00/km a substantial decline (4:10/km). The medals have evaporated.
It was enough to get ahead of Tom Bosworth (1:20:53), a time that Stano has already tasted in the past and at least we would have tasted the taste of team silver.
Rating: 7.5
 
Antonella Palmisano.
 
It looked like the photocopy of Podebrady 2017.
For 12km alone with an impressive regularity and always with that twenty second advantage.
Instead they had to go beyond the minute and from there it was clear that the day would not be glorious. She waited before to abandon to see the team mates: very good.
Rating: no vote for the DNF, but 6 for the thought to the Team.
 
 
The outsiders
 
Eleonora Dominici.
 
Up to 12km together with the best.
Concrete, with a beautiful technical pace (remember the proverb, "no one is a prophet in his own Country", and we will never get tired of associating it with someone we know).
It is worth fighting for a goal always with a smile on our face as we have seen.
Exciting the team spirit seen when passing the favorite partner in crisis: if I am not mistaken we saw it in Split 1980.
Yesterday was the first of the Italians on the finish line, with a time very close to their personal best: an honor.
Rating: 8
 
Valentina Trapletti.
 
She suffers the return after injuries, but she resists in the eight finalists.
Now all that remains is to see her at La Coruna, which seems to be the June's World Championship.
Rating: 7
 
Riccardo Orsoni.
 
We had already seen him in great dusting in the Indoor and we had a good impression: a great view.
The management of his race was perfect. Illuminating the moment when he realized that the gold could be won, when Lukas Niedzialek (POL) was stopped for 60" in the Penalty Zone. Very lucid to manage the 30" advantage he had on Pedro Conesa (ESP).
And let's not complain when someone else with a not too good technical gesture ends up in front of us: history teaches us that sooner or laters your sins will find you out.
Wiped out the statistics eight athletes of Russia with their times obtained in Sochi, and the victory over the Polish until yesterday seasonal European leader leads us to a single consideration, and we do not believe there may be others.
Rating: 10
 
 
At our Gran Condé we congratulate you on a medal that we were not used to seeing for a long time.
How did you sleep Antonio ?