Giacomo Fantoni is eliminated in the Tokyo 2020 qualifying round and decides to stop.
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Third place in the first qualifying heat, behind the Swiss David Graf and the American Connor Fields and avoiding the crashes of the Australian Anthony Dean and the Ecuadorian Alfredo Campo. In the second he finished sixth on the 6 of his battery and in the third fifth. Only the top four entered tomorrow's finals. Pity. The 30-year-old Giacomo Fantoni from Verona, who brought the specialty back to Tokyo after the Rio "hole", says he is "happy to have given visibility to this sport, sorry for having concluded his participation in the qualification". In Team Bmx Verona, which awaits his return to applaud him anyway, he will now dedicate himself to young people so that "they can do better than me in Paris 2024. The Olympic experience is fantastic, I felt like a child in a candy shop and meeting the basketball players that I practiced before bmx was like goosebumps ».
As announced before the start of the Games, Fantoni will end his career at the end of this season. «You can't live on bmx today, I was already working as a trainer and coach and now I will dedicate myself to work full time. At bmx I will always be grateful and I will do my best to develop the young people we have and can do better than me in view of Paris 2024 ».
