The Italian beat American Nicola 2-0 in the final on the podium in the -80kg category. Three years ago, there was a huge disappointment in the quarter-finals, and this time the podium
Simone Alessio is the bronze medalist in taekwondo -80 kg: after beating the Uzbek Jasurbek Jasonov in the rematch, the Italian beat the American Nicholas in the final, winning both rounds. After two golds at the World Championships in the 74 kg category in Manchester in 2019 and in the 80 kg category in Baku in 2023, for the boy born in Livorno (but who discovered taekwondo in the province of Catanzaro, in Celia Marina, where he went at the age of three, “a place where you can only dance, football and taekwondo. I had the good fortune that my father told me when I was ten: in football, in my opinion you have no chance, in taekwondo you have some chances”, he said in an interview) comes the first Olympic joy with a bronze medal of great value.
Disappointment in 2021
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Three years ago in Tokyo, a painful quarter-final elimination in an Olympic trial that needed to be made up for (he narrowly lost 6-5 to Egypt’s Seif Eissa). In Paris, the joy of the podium. It was the 34th medal of the Italian journey, the first of two that would come later in athletics with Patocletti and Diaz taking the tally to 36.
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