Near successes
There are some excellent placings for the Italian men and women at the Fossa Universale World Championship in Ychoux (France), even if this time the high notes are missing: the ones that send the loggerheads into a frenzy. The high points in this case are the gold medals which Director Sandro Polsinelli's team is unable to access either in individual or team competitions. But it must be said that on numerous occasions success was actually very close.
The words of director Polsinelli
“Certainly the response produces bitterness – specifies the Director Sandro Polsinelli – because we did not win any gold medal and this in particular saddens me because it had never happened in the recent history of our participation in the World Cup. In my role I have to formulate an overall examination of the trip and I have to note that the general performance of the team was lower than in other competitions: this makes me imagine that we were probably penalized by a concatenation of reasons that involved all the athletes and all the the athletes. For example, the management of the trip was probably not optimal. From a technical point of view, then, we competed on eight pitches obviously with eight different schemes but we did not have the opportunity to test all the pitches during the trials and in some cases during the competition we found ourselves facing throws that would certainly have deserved work more accurate preparation. It should not be overlooked that a race involving 576 contenders requires a very slow pace and therefore requires a prolonged stay on the field despite only having two series scheduled per day."
Narducci's race
Although the Italian team did not win any titles, the forty-second Fossa Universale World Championship still rewarded Italy with some very valuable medals. For example, Stefano Narducci was the author of a literally textbook race: the titled Tuscan specialist completed the eight series of races without ever falling below the score of 24/25 and scored a solid 194/200 which translated in a prestigious bronze medal behind the French Steve Perrin and the Spanish Aitor Carmona Tirado who composed the score of 196 (it was then the Iberian shooter who won the world title in the play-off) (source: FITAV).
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