(PRIMASPORT) TRENTO – After 235 days, the seven-man team that won the bronze medal in the figure skating team event met in the city of the Council for the first time since achieving this extraordinary result. Sara Conti, Marco Fabbri, Daniel Grassl, Charlène Guignard, Lara Naki Gutmann, Niccolò Macii, and Matteo Rizzo relived the magical two-day event that allowed Italy to win its first-ever medal in the team event and its third ever in Italian figure skating., Behind the United States and Japan. The two competitive ice dancing couples, Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri, and Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii, talked about how they met and how their sporting and romantic connection developed, poking fun at their previous relationships and the challenges of growing together athletically.
Friendship, rivalry, and technical progress, spurring one another on, were the themes of analysis by individual athletes Daniel Grassi and Matteo Rizzo, while in closing, local athlete Lara Naki Gutmann, making her debut at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, garnered great attention and applause.
The seven champions also spoke privately about their sporting futures. Gutmann is determined to make her mark in the future, while Niccolò Macii has decided to retire from competitive sports to become a coach. Sara Conti is looking for a new athletic partner, perhaps moving to Canada where her boyfriend lives. For Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri, the coming months will also be a time to seek new motivation and new challenges to continue being top athletes. (PRIMASPORT)
