The fencing world championship in Milan is the perfect springboard for the Paris Olympics

Italy hosts the world championships for the eighth time and collects its first medals, just as good news arrives from swimming in Japan, athletics finds Larissa Iapichino again and awaits Jacobs. Next year, at the Olympic Games in France, "we could even improve the Tokyo 2020 numbers", says Malagò

Milan is more Olympic than ever. Exactly one year after the Paris Games and 927 days after those of Milan-Cortina, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, arrives in a city devastated by the night storm. He is the guest of honor at the inauguration ceremony of the fencing world championship which is gathering thousands of young people in the area of ​​the old fair. "It is the eighth time that Italy hosts the World Fencing Championships, but the first time with the President of the Republic at the inauguration - said Malagò - His passion and closeness represent a source of pride and pride for our world and a spur for our male and female female athletes".