The bronze medal of supermassimo Paolo Vidoz, twelve years from Seoul gives a salutary shock to Olympic medals, and beautiful rendering of the young Sven Paris that exceeds two rounds of applause.
This is the Olympics dell'Italboxe which gives a positive image of the team, with six boys emerged from the hardest of qualifications and certainly a draw for malicious Di Corcia and Fragomeni who met in the first round opponents from final. Bundu deludeva but passed at least one shift, while the "average" Barone goes invoked the thrill of a novice who was suddenly catapult the focus of world Olympics in a spectacular and exciting.
Not to mention that Vidoz was really convinced they can overcome the English Audley Harrison, revelation of the Olympic tournament. A colossus of the past ebony rings with the trumpet of professionalism and will soon gain the limelight of world heavyweights, category director of boxing. Also for the boxer goriziano the draw was not the best. A debut with the colored American Brock, then the rocky Nigerian Samuel, and then the English Harrison that the first round had eliminated the champion of Europe, the Russian Lezin (Tampere scippato had the title to Vidoz…!). Vidoz, had already met and Harrison had lost, but the English had not appeared irresistible. As the World Houston had seemed powerful, but slow, with a boxing elementary and predictable.
In short, it was an opponent from semifinal, difficult but not insurmountable. So Vidoz the ring dell'Exbition Centre in Darling Harbour, avoided any tatticismo, began to skyrocket, attacking the opponent, trying to force the pace and supremacy. Instead of a knock Harrison anticipavano action of blue, the hardest hit, opening the gates dangerous guard Vidoz. Even the judges seemed to be irretiti from precise, powerful, stylistically correct, the British point should be allocated in the first round, three points in a single operation.
The boxing has always taught that sometimes courage is not enough, to a situation in which the Corsican event is infilano on a track which becomes a one-way, while everything is resolved and decide handfuls of seconds. At the end Vidoz had to be satisfied with a "bronze" strongly agognato by, by Patrizio Oliva and his technical staff and all the Federation after the collapse of Atlanta (Vidoz was made by Rubalcaba ko in the first round), has rebuild, ridandogli motivations and new belief in four years certosina care.
After the unfortunate American travel, in fact, Vidoz would then lost honourably with the Cuban at the World Cup in Budapest'97, then beat him sonoramente to Goodwill games'98, World Cup, World Houston'99. It would be easy to say now that if Vidoz tackled again colossus of ebony English, the likely outcome would be very different. And perhaps the revenge will come as soon as possible among professionals, given the intentions of the two athletes (despite the concerns of mother who obviously Vidoz in all these years has never noticed the quality of the boy!).
That bronze - finally! -- After twelve years of Parisi by gold in Seoul moves the glorious Olympic medals of the blue boxing (14 gold, 12 silver, 14 bronze) should now projecting Paolo Vidoz towards goals prestigious even among heavyweights.
The Sydney Olympics have not repaid the titanic efforts of Jacob Fragomeni, stumbled in the first match with the Cuban Isael Alvarez. But his little Jacob Olympics had already won qualifying in spite of the saints (and that the European judges assigned an embarrassing 15-0!) Falling far 10 kilos, timbrando passport for Australia in the category of mediomassimi that frankly it is not congenial.
It had to go "pro" after the splendid victory among the highest in Europe'98 Championship. Many suggested him, and he all rammentò debt of gratitude taken with the commissioner technical Patrizio Oliva who had regenerated as a boxer and man.
If Ottavio Barone was betrayed by emotion in the match debut with the carneade greek Giannolulas by Leonard Bundu, world bronze medal, we expected something more, even if the athlete Florence was a serious accident and had to battagliare sharply with the balance. It was instead simply the unfortunate superwelter Foggia Di Corcia that incappava in Romanian Simion, world champion in office, then silver medal. But with just 24 years and a lot of experience already behind, the boy will become a pillar of the renewed team for Athens 2004.
Finally Sven Paris, the next 20 years on December 17, remains the great revelation of this team built by Patrizio Oliva and his staff in the Centre Formia. A boy simple, intelligent and will. A boy with little experience behind (45 matches), but exceeded that fluency in two rounds (in the second match castigava with 17-11, the German champion Kay Huste Europe, making lupini eyes to the organizers Germans who after the Olympics began a tight courtship for a strapparlo Oliva) and then cede with Mohamed Allalou, in a match once again designed by judges capable of giving immediate all'algerino a 7-0 that closed the match, forcing Paris and set off desperate inconclusive.
The judges (and score machines) remains once the limit now insurmountable for the growth and promotion of the sport. In Sydney, once again two arbitrators were caught in flagrante combine (both disqualification of 4 years), while others destreggiavano in an explosive combination of incompetence and bad faith. Never have we seen so judges type speed shots to target large, often on the arms, often empty.
Never until now had witnessed scores so wide, with so many boxers hold for rsco (or have passed the 15 points of difference in practice a "manifest inferiority"), then match that decided in the first few seconds and who piazzava the first shots are aggiudicava victory.
So many things will have to be reviewed, and if we really want to continue boxing to recite the prestigious role of the Olympic discipline, truly noble, wonderful and educational, must renew itself seriously and deeply, reconsidering certain criteria (unnecessary sequence of the Olympic qualifying tournament of athletes and the selection of arbitrators, broken down by continent and not by merit and quality), the current use of "score-machines", some rules like rsco inconceivable. In the blue team remains the bitterness of having conquered the minimum, before the quality expressed by a team capable of bringing two athletes up to the quarter-finals. Not going from Seoul (Nardiello and Parisi). Nell'88 came the gold medal, in Sydney we must satisfy the bronze Vidoz. A future memory.
Antonio Creti

Paolo Vidoz
Weight supermassimi
Born in Gorizia on August 21, 1970
Situation: 04/04/2000
Total meetings: 98
Losers: 75
Pareggiati: 0
Lost: 23
Company: Boxing Piovese C.R. Veneto
Sydney 2000 Olympics: bronze category supermassimi