2016 was the year of the Rio Olympics, which reserved many emotions for the blue colors: let's relive them all through the articles, photos and videos of FIRSTonline - From Gregorio Paltrinieri's historic gold to Federica's disappointment…
By beating Montenegro by 12 to 12, the blue Settebello conquers the bronze medal in water polo at the Rio 2016 Olympics and brings the blue medal table to 26
The 16th seal, fifth of the most precious metal, came from the very young Gabriele Rossetti in skeet - Rossetti is a son of art: father Bruno won the bronze in Barcelona '92, when he wasn't even born yet.
On Friday, Italy won a medal for each metal: first the bronze in rowing (4 men's coxless), then the Bacosi-Cainero double in women's clay pigeon shooting - Now the total says 15, with 4 golds - In…
Elisa Di Francisca in women's foil and Marco Innocenti in skeet shooting win two more silver medals for Italy at the Rio 2016 Olympics - the Azzurri have won eleven medals so far.
Nothing to do for Alex Schwazer: the TAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) confirmed the sentence of the IAAF and sentenced him to an eight-year disqualification for doping - No Olympics and end of career for the walker...
Golf is back in the Olympic program and Italy lines up two athletes with podium ambitions: in fact, the big favorites are missing and there could be room for some surprises - The competition starts today and ends on Sunday.
The medal was won by shooter Marco Innocenti in the double trap, after Pellielo had obtained the same result in the pit - This is the tenth medal for Italy at Rio 2016, the fifth silver.
Great disappointment for Federica Pellegrini who fails the 200-meter freestyle race at the Rio Olympics, finishing only fourth and finishing off the podium - Like four years ago in London, the Olympic Games do not bring luck to…
The Florentine target shooter puts his third Olympic medal around his neck after the gold and silver in London 2012: in this edition his is the third gold for Italy, which brings the total of medals to nine …
Vanessa Ferrari and Carlotta Ferlito conquer the all around final, but the Italian team as a whole leaves the scene, without replicating the success of London 2012.
Double gold for the Azzurri at the Olympics: the very young Fabio Basile wins the gold medal in judo while Daniele Garozzo is first in foil - Odette Giuffrida enriches the medal table by winning the silver medal in women's judo - The Cagnotto-Dallapè couple wins…
Isa Longo Borghini gives the third medal (bronze) to Italy in the women's road cycling event at the Rio Olympics. Previously medals had been won for the Azzurri by the swimmer Gabriele Detti (bronze) in the 400m freestyle and…
The Jaws, protagonist of a perfect race, falls downhill when he was leading 11 km from the finish: shoulder and wrist break and goodbye to Olympic dreams - Nibali will return to Italy on Prime Minister Renzi's plane - The gold of…
Nibali guesses the right escape and dreams of Olympic gold but falls disastrously 11 km from the finish line, breaks his shoulder and wrist and the victory vanishes - The gold goes to the Belgian Van Avermaet - Aru sixth - Comments Renzi: "What…
All eyes on Ludovico Edalli in men's gymnastics who has the Japanese Kohei Uchimura as his absolute champion - In women's artistic gymnastics five blues in the competition and many hopes even if the competition is fierce.
Show at the Maracana in the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics - Here is the complete program of the Olympic competitions and TV appointments for Saturday 6 August
The Shark, after the disappointing Tour, is with Valverde the great favorite of the Olympic cycling race - A route for great climbers and skilful downhill skiers - There is also Froome but not Contador and Quintana - Italy can also play…
The Italian swimmer, at her fourth Olympics, is not only our country's standard-bearer at Rio 2016 but she is the champion who can give us the medals that slipped away from her in London - Paltrinieri and Magnini, Nibali and Aru,…
What starts on Friday 5 August will be the first edition of the Olympics hosted by a country in recession - At the moment the official cost of the Games is around 11 billion euros, but the Court of Auditors denounces expenses…
PROMETEIA'S ATLAS - Rio 2016 will not be enough to relaunch Brazil: a mix of political and economic uncertainty continues to weigh on the South American country, which has lost 2014 percentage points of GDP since the first quarter of 8 and is experiencing…
The Olympic Games in Brazil will open on Friday 5 August in a nightmare scenario in a country on the brink of the abyss due to the political and economic crisis and the spread of corruption - Infrastructures and plants still unfinished - The shadow…
The International Olympic Committee has established that Russia will be able to participate in the Rio Games despite the doping scandal - The decision on which athletes to admit to the Olympics will be up to the individual international sports federations, which will evaluate on a case-by-case basis.
According to the International Olympic Committee, the presence of each athlete in Rio 2016 "should be decided by the international federation to which they belong on the basis of their own anti-doping rules".
According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, the system was favored by the state and involved all sports - The exclusion of the Russian delegation from the next Olympics was requested - Putin: "The managers will be suspended" - But a vitriolic note also arrives from Moscow:…
