Double success for the Blue Butterflies at the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Tel Aviv .

Maurelli and her teammates won gold in the five circles and in the ribbons and balls , medals that are added to yesterday's silver in the All around and team ranking , which had left a bad taste in the mouth of the Italian team.

The redemption comes in the first exercise, mounted on the notes of a medley "Mercy in darkness and Strenght of Thousand Men" of Bergesen / Phoenix, the blue warriors have conquered 36,650 points imposing themselves on Israel, silver with 36.450 points and on Bulgaria, bronze with 34.750 .

Then the second success, in the routine with 3 tapes and 2 balls, built on Michael Jackson's song, "They don't care about us", with the Italian national team, who finished with 34,250 points, leaving Spain behind with 31.950 and Azerbaijan with 31.900.

" We are happy with our performance in this European Championship both for the two gold medals today and for the two silver medals yesterday - said captain Alessia Maurelli -. It is useless to deny that we regret the second place yesterday because certainly the The path that brought us closer to the European Championships promised something else for us. Let's not get discouraged, let's go ahead and show who we are on the platform. We are worth what we have today around our necks . Thanks to all those people who supported us yesterday and today. today I am also a little bit for them ".

(Unioneonline / lf)

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