Cagliari. If the echo of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is not over yet, Stefano Oppo and his partner Pietro Route will compete in the first race …

Cagliari. While the echo of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is not yet dead, Stefano Oppo and partner Pietro Route will be on the water to take part in the first rowing race battery. The Italian crew, 1 in the water, will face Osborne and Romelman in a double waters and Portugal waters tomorrow at 4:20 pm Italian time. Portugal, Germany, Uzbekistan, Thailand and Venezuela in the heat of blue lightweight. The Ireland-Poland challenge in the second heat will be Norway’s turn against Belgium, Spain and Chile in the third and final heat.

Given the proximity of his debut in the water, the athlete from Oristano touched the podium in his “lightest four” game in the final of the Lago Rodrigo de Freitas, as has already happened in Rio 2016, and today Sardinia dreamed that he would not be able to officially attend the Olympic opening ceremony today.

The Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo, which hosted the 2019 Junior World Championships, sees the rowing duo Oppo-Ruta in the men’s lightweight doubles specialty. The Sardinian-Lombard blue team qualified for the Games at the 2019 World Championships in Linz, Austria. Stefano Oppo and Pietro Ruta dream of gold: From tomorrow they will have to watch out especially Irish McCarthy and O’Donoghue for the Rio 2016 bronze medal, and Norway for the bronze and strand; German couple Osborne and Rommelmann.

Sergio Casano