But Massullo’s silver in 1988 remains the last time an Italian stood on an individual Olympic podium. To this day, Italy still sit in seventh place in the all-time Olympic medal table. Four years earlier, Masala himself had claimed individual gold in Los Angeles with Massullo winning bronze and the pair combining with Pierpaolo Cristofori for team gold.
He had taken individual silver and helped compatriots Daniele Masala and Tiberti to team silver at the Seoul 1988 Games. Massullo, Gianluca Tiberti and Roberto Bomprezzi claimed team bronze that year as Massullo continued his remarkable streak. When Italy’s Carlo Massullo added a fourth Olympic medal to his collection in Barcelona (ESP) in the summer of 1992, his home country could hardly have imagined it would be the last they would see of such scenes for a generation. Paris Pointer: Can Micheli (ITA) end a 36-year wait and build a bridge back to Olympic glory for Italian fans? While the opulent surroundings and history may at first seem somewhat removed from elite sport, King Louis XIV and his royal family enjoyed sporting pastimes from the very first days of the palace with jousting, carousels, sled races and early versions of golf and tennis all played at Versailles.įrom August 8-11 next year it will be pentathlon royalty that will be checking in - and aiming for a coronation. The Château de Versailles, 35km west of central Paris, will also host a number of equestrian events during the Games with a temporary outdoor arena set up on the Etoile Royale esplanade at the heart of the Palace’s gardens.
Fresh from Tokyo Stadium being transformed into a Pentathlon Arena in the Japanese capital city’s delayed Games in 2021, pentathlon will again find itself in a spectacular setting for its Olympic moment. Next summer it will welcome 72 VIP guests when the brightest lights of Modern Pentathlon compete for Olympic glory in the historic surrounds of the palace gardens. These days Versailles attracts more than 15 million visitors a year. The one-time royal residence of King Louis XIV has long since become a getaway for millions with the palace, its iconic gardens and sprawling parklands declared France’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site almost half a century ago. Next summer it will do the same in fittingly grandiose style to the 2024 Olympic Games. How the former home of France’s King Louis XIV will prepare to welcome pentathlon royaltyĪs one of the green lungs of Paris, the estate of the Palace of Versailles has been helping to breathe life into the French capital for generations.
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