![]() ![]() ![]() Competing at Tokyo 2020 was set to be the icing on the cake. Looking back on 2020, Myles says it had all the makings of an unforgettable year after he won silver at the European Championships in Rome and graduated from college. In April he will have the chance to qualify himself for the Olympics and I am confident that he could do it.” “He has the same training programme as mine and he is improving himself. Having qualified for Tokyo 2020 at the 2019 UWW World Championships, where he finished fifth in the men’s freestyle 86kg, Myles is now waiting to see if his brother can replicate the accomplishment in April to make it a real family affair this summer in the Japanese capital. Carrying on the tradition along with Myles are his brother, Malik, and cousin, Jordan, all proud Wolverines. Myles’ father was an NCAA finalist and four-year letterwinner at the University of Michigan (1986-89), while his uncle also wrestled for the university (1988-90). Wrestler Myles Nazem Amine, judoka Paolo Persoglia, and swimmer Arianna Valloni are the other athletes in the San Marino team.Wrestling runs deep in the family of San Marino’s Myles Amine, who is preparing to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps when he appears at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 this summer.īorn in the US state of Michigan to his Sammarinese mother and American father, the 24-year-old Amine was raised on a steady diet of wrestling and the Olympic Games thanks to the pedigree of his paternal grandfather, Nazim, who competed for Lebanon at the Olympic Games Rome 1960. Perilli will next compete in the mixed team trap event on Saturday, alongside fellow Sammarinese shooter Gian Marco Berti. In an inspiring message to younger athletes she said, "Keep practicing sports and dream." "There was no pressure, but only support from my country, from my team, from my federation and the Olympic committee," she said. San Marino first took part in the Summer Games in 1960 at Rome.It's National Olympic Committee has always entered the most athletes in shooting, where its had its best results, but if Perilli had the weight of expectation on her shoulders, she didn't show it. This is what helps us to win, and allows us to go forward," she added. "But I think we're like a big family, all of us together. We've had ups and downs but we have succeeded together," she said. "Now, the first person I'd like to say is thank you to is my coach, Luca Di Mari. "We have gone through this whole process and we won the medal together as a team," said Perilli as she reflected on her medal success. Perilli counts her sister as one of her sporting heroes, according to her profile on the Olympics website.īetween 20, Perilli took seven months away from the sport, after becoming pregnant with her son. Her sister Arianna Perilli is also a shooter, who has represented both Italy and San Marino in the sport, and won gold in trap at the 2017 European Championships in Azerbaijan. The 33-year-old Perilli took up shooting in 2001, when she was introduced to the sport by her father. I don't know, but for sure now they are." 'We won the medal together' We are a small country but very proud," she said after the medal ceremony. "This is the first medal for me and for my country. "During the final, when the fifth shooter went out, I thought, I don't want to be one more time in fourth place, so I have to make it," Perilli told reporters. The previous best result for a Sammarinese athlete at the Games was when shooter Franceso Nanni finished fifth in the 50m rifle prone at the Los Angeles 1984 Games. ![]() Laetisha Scanlan of Team Australia missed out on a shot for a medal. ![]()
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