Ferdinando Savaresehost of the show Sprint2Ua weekly event broadcast on OA Sport Youtube channelhad as a guest Vladimir Vinegarssilver medal with the men’s 4×400 relay at the 2024 European Senior Championships held in Rome.
The labors of the Roman races they make themselves heard: “I’m pretty good, yesterday I was pretty cooked. In general, between travel and races, my legs felt a bit worse afterwards. After having only done two races, I have to say that for 4-5 hours after the 4×400 final I was telling everyone ‘Let me retrain, because my legs still want to run’. Now I would say ‘I’ll rest and go to the next race’“.
The lump sum by Alessandro Sibilio close to the relay final: “Already in the team meeting held in the afternoon there was already, I won’t say the security, that he was competing, but the official line-up said on Monday was Sito, Aceti, Scotti, Sibilio, with a second line-up already ready, which is the one that raced the final, because Sibilio would decide whether to compete or not after finishing the warm-up. This is a very important season, we know that he is very physically fragile as a boy, and therefore he didn’t want to take risks. At first he gave the ok to compete, Sibilio, then, as soon as he started making changes with the relay he felt a cramp in his calf and from there it was decided not to compete“.
Hiss was replaced by Riccardo Meli: “In my opinion, knowing that you are replacing a very strong starter still gives you a little anxiety. However, a super athlete was removed, another was added, no less so, because then the result was seen. However, we knew that with or without Sibilio our race was against the Dutch, our objective was the Dutch. We knew that the Dutch, the Belgians, we were fighting against them for a medal. We don’t know if with Sibilio we took an easy gold or not, with Meli we fought until the end for the gold, so we took the silver by 0.01 from the third place of the Germans, so in my opinion it was a strange change. , because some potential was taken away, but still he fought very well, he had a super race, he said that he didn’t expect to start first, that I would pass the baton to him first, but he was very good and he deserved it too this medal, like all four of us relay runners“.
L’analysis of its fraction: “It is known that in the relay in theory you go a little faster, however you run on the man and therefore you relax a little more and you manage to run better. The rules would like there to be almost a second difference between the individual race and the launched race, so having done 45″5 from a block, I should do 44″5 launched, and in Tokyo it happened, but if we calculate what happened in Tokyo I should already do 45″2. Then in the individual race, unfortunately, the whole story changes, however you compete in a different way, you don’t have the opponent in front of you who protects you, helps you, you’re glued to him. I also need to re-compete a little to get back into the racing environment for a moment, last year I did four races in one year, this year in a month I did four, and I can say that I have to finish adding the pieces, because I did several races where I did a 200 well and a little badly in the other 200, or vice versa. Now that race will come where I will join the two pieces and I hope the best performance I can do comes out, however I have to readjust to the races, in the meantime after a year like last year, between a fractured tibia and a fractured vertebra, however starting again was not easy“.
The story of his race: “I did 45″3 in the heat, but I did a throw where the finish was a little tighter, and then I still did 45″35 in the final, but in the first 250 meters the Belgian slowed me down a lot, I hoped that the Belgian went as fast as in the heat, where he did 44″6, but instead he did 45″92 thrown, he stopped me a little, but I did a good throw, the strong curve, in the straight beyond I slowed down a little to make pass the Belgian in front, but on the curve he really gave me a huge brake to stay behind him, and on the straight I overtook him, however I knew I could give much more, but our goal was to stay there with Belgium, to fight“.
L’explosion by Luca Sito: “His strong point is the ease he uses in running compared to me, who hardens me up, changes my running set-up, and he holds it very, very well. In the last period I also call him a lot, because in certain training sessions he waits for me to catch up with him and then go, then I told him ‘Luca doesn’t have to wait for me to go fast, if you have to go, if the lactate training is run fast , you run fast’. We are doing excellent training together and we will continue to do so, now I have to attach myself to him, a lot, and I will try to do so, but it is a group that has grown well“.
The recovery of Davide Re: “Davide had a little problem, an edema on his foot, I hope he recovers, however, as he said, it could be his last Olympics, so he wants to do it to the fullest, he wants to do it well to end on a high note, if he ever decides to end the season there his career, so I hope he recovers. He said the decision not to compete at the European Championships was not easy, he tried, but he would have arrived at the European Championships with a foot that was not yet intact, risking getting hurt and not participating in the Olympics. The Olympic relay could work miracles, I could venture some hypotheses, but I won’t say them until I run it, because in my opinion we have a lot of potential and we could also achieve good results with the mixed, where for now we have the second fastest time in the world , so we’re in a very, very good situation with that too, and then there could be some surprises“.
