If the French delegation still does not know who will carry its flag, for its part, Italy is determined. The 2021 Olympic high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi and foil fencer Arianna Errigo will be the flag bearers for Italy, the Italian Olympic Committee announced this Monday. “Tamberi and Errigo will guide the athletes of the Italian delegation on July 26 during the opening ceremony of the next Games,” CONI said in a press release.
They succeed the cyclist Elia Viviani and the shooter Jessica Rossi who were the Italian flag bearers in 2021 in Tokyo, the first edition of the Summer Olympics where most of the delegations were preceded by two flag bearers, a man and a woman .
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