Paul and Glenn are back for an entertaining and educational episode. This week we celebrate Italy’s national day and talk about Italian sport and some well known Italian sportspeople from over the years. We also discuss italian culture and paul will reminisce about some of his experiences travelling around italy. In this episode we will also discuss
Great italian footballers such as gianluigi buffon, alessandro del piero, francesco totti and roberto baggio.
Athletes such as current olympic 100m champion lamont macell jacobs and pietro mennea.galindo bordin.
Eugenie monti
The story of long distance runner durando pietri and the drama at the finish of the marathon at the 1908 olympics.
Danilo gallinari
Federica pellegrini
Vincenzo nibali
Italy at the world cup (the azzuri)
Tennis players such as matteo berretini and sara errani.
The world’s second most famous cycle race and the big lead up event to the tour de france.
A champion downhill skier, known for his movie star looks, playboy lifestyle who achieved great success and olympic gold.
Paul and glenn give their claps and slaps of the week and miss olivia drops by to do the quiz and who am I? We also have our where are they now segment and paul will wrap up the show with his top 5.
Italian sport references
Topendsports.com. ‘Sport in italy’ 4/5/2023
Thefamouspeople.com. ‘Famous italian sportspersons’
Learnamo.com ‘the most loved italian athletes of the last years’,n.d.
The olympics, athens to athens 1896-2004. Weidenfeld and nicolson. The orion publishing group. 2004.
Pantheon.world. “The most famous athletes from italy’. N.d.
Britannica.com, alberto tomba, italian skier.
Understandingitaly.com, ‘alberto tomba’ 2010.
World ov volley.com. ‘Where is alberto tomba now?” 26/2/2013.
Olympics.com, ‘when alberto tomba burst onto the scene 32 years ago’, 31/3/2021.
Omega. ‘Got a minute? With alberto tomba’.2010.
