‘Rose Gold’, the women who brought Italy to the Games podium

From Ondina Valla, the first Italian to win the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games, when she excelled in the 80 meter hurdles in Berlin, to the sailor Caterina Banti, an extraordinary protagonist in Tokyo at the last Olympics in the Mixed Catamaran. Twenty-two stories of sport and life, those told by Marco Lollobrigida, Rai journalist in the book “Oro Rosa. The women who brought Italy to the top of the Olympic podium”, an almost hundred-year long journey that crosses successes and emotions of champions of the caliber of the blue dragonfly Sara Simeoni, who conquered Moscow in 1980, of Gabriella Dorio, who made Los Angeles dream only four years later, of Federica Pellegrini, absolute queen in Beijing in 2008. Chapter after chapter, the portraits follow one another of women who made Italian sport and Italy great: Antonella Bellutti, Paola Pezzo, Josefa Idem, Alessandra Sensini, Valentina Vezzali, Elisa Di Francisca, Antonella Palmisano and many others. The book (published by Rai Libri, 19 euros) tells the story of the evolution of the female figure in the history of the Olympics, between dreams and sacrifices, sporting goals and important life choices. The preface was signed by Coni president Giovanni Malagò.