OLYMPIC FOSSA - Smyrna (Tur) - “She was better than me. - thus begins Jessica Rossi, champion of race and phenomenon of sportsmanship ".
Today the Chinese Yingzi Liu first surpassed her in the decisive score of 25, then finally beat her in the play-off at 91/100 equal. Four to three in the decisive shoot off, but Jessica today failed in her specialty: in the one-shot final, cross and delight of the shooters, she often and willingly goes above 20. Today she stopped at the very minimum of pink excellence , while Yingzi made only one mistake.
Super performance that allows the XNUMX-year-old from Hu Nan to take home the world cup, which is paired with the one she won last year in Beijing. The XNUMX-year-old from Crevalcore is not too sorry. He analyzes his season with coldness and optimism: “I am happy with my vintage. Everyone reminds me of last year.
It's true I won the European title, the world title and Suhl's world cup event, this year I won much less but the goal was the Olympic card and I got it by also hitting the world bronze. I am satisfied and I know that I have to improve. Today for gold it would have been enough not to miss the penultimate final target, for example, or another of the other four "zeros" I committed earlier.
I started with a mistake and I could and should have started better. But that's the way it went, I'll treasure it for the next races ”. Bronze medal for the Russian Maria Volkova (89 + 1) who in the play-off overtook the Slovakian Zuzana Stefecekova (89 +0). Fifth the other blue, Deborah Gelisio (86). First day of competition for men. After the first 75 targets, the Australian Adam Vella is in the lead with a score of 73, ahead of the Russian Alexey Alipov (72) and the Turkish Oguzhan Tuzun (72). Mauro De Filippis is fifth with 69 together with the Czech David Kostelecky, gold in Beijing '08.
The blue is in full swing for the final, scheduled for tomorrow at 13.00, Italian time. Daniele Resca is 9th with 67, but if he makes no mistakes in the next two series he can aspire to enter the top six of the final barrage. Female Ranking 1) Yingzi Liu (CHN) 91/100 +4; 2) Jessica Rossi (ITA) 91 + 3; 3) Maria Volkova (RUS) 89 + 1; 4) Zuzana Stefecekova (SVK) 89 + 0; 5) Deborah Gelisio (ITA) 86 + 9; Huan Yang (CHN) 86 +8. Male 1) Adam Vella (AUS) 73/75; 2) Alexey Alipov (RUS) 72; 3) Oguzhan Tuzun (TUR) 72; 4) Michael Diamond (AUS) 70; 5) David Kostelecky (CZE) 69 and Mauro De Filippis (ITA) 69. 9) Daniele Resca (ITA) 67
Source: Fitav