Nadia Battocletti finished second to Kenya's 5,000m champ Beatrice Chebet in the women's 10,000 metre race at Paris 2024 Friday night becoming the first European woman to medal in the event.
    The 24year-old from Cles in South Tyrol had already finished fourth in the 5,000.
    "It also makes one smile a bit, my focus was on the 5,000, in recent weeks I have had to reduce the load due to physical problems, so the 10,000 was not even on my mind," she told Rai Sport after the race.
    "It's only my fourth race at this distance.

But I wanted to have some more fun and I got there with a smile and lightness".
    The Italian athlete, who recently won golf in the 5,000 at the European championships in Rome, carried a tricolour flag on her shoulders after the race, limping, laughing and crying.
    Then she went to embrace Gabriella Dorio, gold in the 1500 at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, at the foot of the stands.

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