Stop comparing me to mum when I have more medals - Iapichino (2)
Fiona May s daughter set to make national team debut
04 Marzo 2021
ROME, MAR 4 - Italian long jump sensation Larissa
Iapichino said Thursday she dies not expect the comparisons with
her mother, twice world champion Fiona May, to stop any time
soon. I think the comparisons will stop when I have won more medals
than her, the 18-year-old told a video-conference before her
debut with the national team at the European Athletics Indoor
Championships.
Iapichino holds the world lead with her recent jump of 6.91
metres in Ancona.
But she played down the high expectations of her.
Monday, 1 March 2021
The old insult about fans with typewriters was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try.
What tests that icy impartiality in the sporting arena is usually nationality, sometimes affinity, sometimes both. So it was understandable that there was a special exultation in the success of British high jumper Dalton Grant at the Paris European Athletics Indoor Championships of 1994.
As European athletes prepare for the 36