Italy: Quiet Achiever or Underrated?

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    Erika performed her best (double double, double layout, double piked) and ,in my opinion, was a little underscored. She lost the Memmel, but she almost stuck all her passes and had had an interesting choreography (13.90/5.7) and still, coming 7th.
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    Remembering this team lost Elisa Meneghini just a few days before the competition, one of the team&#8217;s best gymnasts for four apparatuses, the gymnasts did an awesome job, showing people they don&#8217;t give up easily.
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    Lara Mori, who was the reserve, finally showed she can be trusted and all her scores were counted towards the team total. She was a pleasant surprise on bars, which used to be her worst apparatus but suddenly became one of her assets.
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    Erika, aside from achieving an AA final presence, redeemed herself of her past experiences and finally seems one of the rocks of the team. She also made the floor final when no other Italian gymnast with the exception of Ferrari had made it in the past.
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    Lavinia Marongiu opened all the rotations during qualifications and was quite impressive how steady she was despite being so inexpericenced. She came from nowhere and surprisingly made the world team,she&#8217;s one to watch for the future.
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    Martina Rizzelli was maybe the only gymnast I would have expected more from. She should be a bars specialist having won the bars title at the EYOF, but falls and low difficulty aren&#8217;t helping her. Also on vault her DTY has deteriorated a lot, scoring low. I hope this is just the beginning for her and she will soon become more competitive. Otherwise the other girls showed that you need a bit more to make it into a major team in the future.
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    Vanessa, well what else is there to add about her. Always competitive, always adding difficulty, she&#8217;s a champion. I just hope she will learn to be nicer to her competitors (?).
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      <strong>Article by: Giuly Holzer</strong>
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      <strong>Photo Cover: Nadia Boyce</strong>
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