00:10The audience is focused on the three platforms while the preliminaries of the following match take place.
00:23and the second gymnastics meeting on the second apparatus, the Rings.
00:36Many changes have occurred in the training of the gymnasts competing for Italy.
00:44between the previous Olympics in Melbourne in 1956 and this one in Rome in 1960.
00:49In 1956 we were seventh, while we were sixth in 1952 to Delsicchi in the women's ranking.
01:01The names have changed.
01:02In the women's sector we competed yesterday and on the other days with six girls.
01:12The Italian women's team no longer included some of the players competing for Italy in Melbourne.
01:19In fact, on that occasion there were Elisa Calzi, Luciana Lagorara, Luciana Reali and Maria Andreina defending our colors.
01:27Historians.
01:30The men were represented by the Italian gymnasts present.
01:38They were limited to just one athlete, Guido Figone, who participated for Italy, partly on an individual basis.
02:00The audience, as I said before, is very large, varied and colorful due to the strong national representatives.
02:14It is also lively in the cut of the different colors of the clothes, the dresses.
02:21Some of the Japanese female spectators' kimonos can also be seen in the images on the television screen.
02:28And even the men here in the audience, Japanese spectators, are in their characteristic national costumes.
02:46The alignment of radio and television reporters, who speak for the different countries, is as always at the great
02:54complete.
02:57And in full force is the line-up of former Italian gymnasts, of those who defended our colours in sport.
03:05of gymnastics.
03:06And among these athletes of the past, there are many Genoese.
03:12Representing the athletics and gymnastics society, Cristoforo Colombo, one of the most glorious Italian members in the sector.
03:58The Italians competing in the men's sector
04:01They were Giovanni and Pasquale Carminucci, Gianfranco Marzolla, Franco Menichelli, Orlando Polmonari and Angelo Vicardi.
04:08These six boys, trained by Aldo Monetti and Jackie Günther, the great Swiss technical trainer,
04:17to win Italy third place in the men's team competition, behind Japan and the Soviet Union.
04:27Two members of this blue team, exactly Giovanni Carminucci and Franco Menichelli,
04:35they performed so well in their apparatus performances, in the two previous men's days,
04:42of the compulsory and free exercises to be conquered on this last day of the Gymnastics Olympics,
04:49their admission to the exercises for the men's specialization in apparatus.
04:56As I was telling you before, the attention of Italians is focused on the very young Franco Menichelli,
05:02one of the sure hopes of our gymnastics, and on Giovanni Carminucci,
05:07for which the hypotheses of the eve, before the boy shows up in the exercise on the apparatus,
05:13they also say that he has the possibility of winning the ultimate gold medal.
05:24I was telling myself a little while ago that the names of the boys and girls in gymnastics for Italy have changed,
05:31among those who competed in Melbourne in the last and sixteenth Olympics,
05:35and those who defend our colors here in Rome for the seventeenth edition of the games.
05:43In Melbourne he competed alone for Italy, also as an individual, as I told you before,
05:49Guido Figone, an undisputed ace of our gymnastics,
05:54who for seven years, who for eight consecutive years, has won the title of Italian champion.
06:14Here is the usual award ceremony preceded by the flag raising
06:25in honor of the three countries that placed in this exhibition
06:32which we have now broadcast live, their athletes.
07:15The final verdict is still being prepared, because apparently
07:20the awarding of 9 and 750 points to the Finnish Eugen Ekman
07:28has given rise to some second thoughts, on the basis of which it could also result
07:34a parity between the fimmico grip and the Soviet ginasta.
07:46It is in fact a better calculation between today's verdict and the points won
07:56by the two gymnasts in the compulsory and free exercises on the same apparatus
08:00It created a situation of parity. Two flags were raised for the first time.
08:06together for the first place.
08:16Eugen Ekman for Finland and Boris Shacklin for the Soviet Union
08:22they thus appear paired in the position of the first absolute
08:28to the pommel horse for the jury's decision.
08:46The audience applauded the two gymnasts: the Finnish Eugen Ekman and the Soviet
08:56Boris Shacklin both on the winner's podium.
09:21Cavalereschi handshake among the top three
09:26as the national flags rise to the flagpole.
09:57Applause from the audience for the two gymnasts for the two gymnasts for the two gymnasts for the
10:00Pinskylere.
10:00The Encirclement of the first Finnish himno to those are followed now
10:05the Soviet himno.
10:33Thank you all.
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12:33Thank you all.
12:37Meanwhile it takes place here at the Baths of Caracalla and on the TV screen you can clearly understand
12:47what is happening in the ceremony of the presentation of the competitors in the subsequent ring exercise.
13:24Thank you all.
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14:23Thank you all.
14:30In Rome they triumphed in the prologue world championships in 1954.
14:38The Soviets triumphed again in Melbourne in 1956 and in Moscow in 1958 at the world championships.
14:46Actually, I correct myself, at the European Championships.
14:57Thank you all.
15:11The Japanese school of gymnastics has emerged,
15:15technically valid in recent years, with prodigious leaps forward that have allowed the boys who represent this country to
15:24to do well here at the Unipiedi in Rome and to win the overall team title in the men's category,
15:30while in the individual ranking for the sum of the exercises on the various apparatus the Soviet Shacklin came first.
15:39Today's day began with the pommel horse exercise,
15:46exercise which, as you have just recorded in the live reporting,
15:51Finnish Ekman and Boris Shacklin of the Soviet Union triumphed,
15:57both first with equal points.
16:00Thank you.
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