“There have never been so many Italian athletes at the European Athletics Championships. In the coming days we will officially announce the team for Roma 2024 but we can already confirm that our national team will have more than 100 athletes for the first time”. This was announced by FIDAL and EuroRoma 2024 Foundation President Stefano Mei with 10 days to go until the European Athletics Championships, scheduled to take place at the Olympic Stadium and the Foro Italico Park 7-12 June.
In the meantime, ticket sales continue: until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 30 May, all tickets and packages are on sale here with a 40% discount, while children from all schools in Italy, together with their carers, will be able to buy tickets for the symbolic price of 1 euro to follow the morning and evening sessions of the opening day on 7 June.
Stefano Mei spoke at the end of the morning training session of the relays of the Italian national athletics team at the Stadio dei Marmi, that will be the main warm-up area for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships.
The Italia team, which will be officially defined shortly, had been a maximum of 101 athletes in the previous edition in Munich 2022, then dropped to 98 due to three defections before the start. This time it will go further. And if it is also partly the result of the increase in specialities over time, it is above all thanks to the broadening of the base that has taken place in the last three years for Italian athletics.
“We have important numbers that show the technical investment made during the last seasons. I am sure that it will be an amazing event in the Olympic Stadium, driven by the great results that our Italian girls and boys are achieving, but also by the great international stars present, like Femke Bol, Armand Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm and many others.” said Mei.
Among the Italians involved in the training session at the Stadio dei Marmi was also the Olympic 4x100m relay champion Filippo Tortu: “This is the right setting for great satisfaction,” he said.
“In this stadium a few days ago I did one of the worst performances of my life, but I am arriving at the European Athletics Championships in a completely different spirit, to do well in the 200m and the 4x100m relay. Livio Berruti‘s race in Roma 1960 Olympic Games inspired me since I was a child: this is not the time to look for comparisons with the past but only to give the best of ourselves. It is the right opportunity to show again that we are a good team. We need the fan’s help to do our best.” said Tortu.
