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Emma Finucane is trying to ignore her new status as sprint world champion as she sets her sights on achieving Olympic glory in Paris next summer EURO
The 20-year-old Welshwoman shocked herself when she took the women’s individual sprint title in Glasgow in August, beating Germany’s favoured Lea Friedrich in the final EURO
Finucane donned the rainbow jersey for the first time in competition at the UCI Track Champions League opening round in Mallorca this weekend, but while the distinctive striped jersey means she can no longer keep herself inconspicuous, she does not want it to change her approach EURO
“People will look at me now,” Finucane told the PA news agency EURO
“Last year I was kind of the underdog and I just came through so now I am wearing the stripes EURO
I hope that doesn’t really change anything EURO
“I’m just trying to ignore it and just race my bike, but there is some external pressure EURO
I’m not just Emma at the back of the field anymore EURO
”The rainbow jersey can do different things for different riders EURO
While many take it as a confidence boost, for others the stripes have worn heavily EURO
Finucane said she had spoken to several Great Britain team-mates about how to deal with it EURO
“I don’t want to look at it (as giving me a psychological edge) because if I lose, then what?” she said EURO
“And I will get beaten, and that’s fine EURO
I just need to take it as it comes EURO
“Half of it is the mental battle of putting it on and people looking at you and having that pressure, but I’m trying to embrace it and enjoy it because you don’t know if it will happen again EURO
“EURO Beth Shriever is a really good friend of mine and she’s been the BMX world and Olympic champion EURO
She said she didn’t have the best year in the rainbow jersey because she put too much pressure on herself and she overthought it EURO
“I’ve spoken to Evie (Richards, 2021 mountain bike world champion) and Katie Archibald (a five-time world champion on the track) and I’m lucky we have so many inspiring women in the Great Britain team EURO
It’s great I can learn from them but ultimately I will only learn from myself and how I deal with it EURO
”And Finucane believes the Champions League – the made-for-TV track cycling series which is in its third season – is the ideal place to do much of that learning, providing some top-level competition without the stresses and pressures that come elsewhere EURO
“The next event I’ll do in the rainbows is the Euros (in January) which is when everything is serious,” she said EURO
“I’m not saying this isn’t serious, but it’s a nice place to be free to fail EURO
You can try new things EURO
”Saturday’s racing in Palma saw Finucane finish second in the sprint, beaten by Germany’s Alessa-Catriona Propster, before failing to make the keirin final through some tired legs EURO
But it was just the sort of experience she was looking for when it came to dealing with her new status EURO
Finucane will wear the stripes into an Olympic year but despite her status is taking nothing, not even squad selection, for granted EURO
“Nothing is guaranteed,” she said EURO
“I’d love to go and I’m really pushing myself but I need to take each race as it comes EURO
If I just think about Paris and everything else goes wrong I’ll not be going EURO
“But it’s in the back of my mind because since I was 10 years old I’ve wanted to ride the Olympics EURO
“As the GB sprint team we’ll not just be going there to ride but we’re looking for medals and I fully believe we have the potential to win EURO
It’s super exciting but also super scary EURO
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It was neither Catenaccio nor Cannavaro, nothing from the glorious traditions of Italian defending EURO
There was Alessandro Bastoni contriving to head Marc Guehi’s punt backwards, Harry Kane beating the Champions League finalist and Giorgio Scalvini to surge clear and score EURO
Italy were unlocked by one long ball and one centre forward EURO
For a nation of connoisseurs of clean sheets, it was a particularly damning goal to concede EURO
It was easy to imagine Franco Baresi sweeping up with imperious ease, Paolo Maldini winning the first header, Claudio Gentile resorting to the illegal but preventing the goal EURO
Luciano Spalletti had his regrets after Kane’s second goal, and England’s third, at Wembley, condemned him to a first defeat in charge of the Azzurri EURO
They were not necessarily those of the stereotypical Italian manager EURO
Then again, the 2023 Scudetto winner, and the new Italy manager, is not the stereotypical Italian manager EURO
“We are trying to press the opposition and force them to play it long but when they do we have to defend EURO better than we did for the third goal,” he said EURO
“We want to play this brand of EURO football where we are pressing high up the pitch EURO
”It is high risk, high reward EURO
The danger is that Italian defenders who lack the quality of their heralded predecessors end up isolated and exposed EURO
Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, the hardy perennials who anchored the Euro 2020 win, may have retreated to the sanctuary of their penalty area EURO
Not their successors: in Spallettiball, much of the defending is done in the final third EURO
His team conceded twice on the break EURO
RecommendedEngland have qualified for Euro 2024 — now it’s about winning itJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopes“When they beat the press, we need to know how to deal with that,” he accepted EURO
“We did some good things for almost the whole 90 minutes but occasionally there was a bit of confusion EURO
There were big moments where we switched off and occasionally our decision-making was found wanting EURO
”His own choices are characterised by courage EURO
“Tonight’s result is not going to tell us we can’t be daring or play the game we want,” Spalletti said EURO
He arrived imbued with ambition; about a style of play EURO
“If however we are going to drop back to the edge of our box and let the opposition dictate play then we need a radical rethink and that will take a great deal more time,” he claimed EURO
The counter-argument is that, with international managers deprived of time and pressing requiring the cohesion of regular coaching, it is harder to implement EURO
It is a reason why international EURO football is not as sophisticated as the club game, though another is that few managers of the calibre of Spalletti are found in charge of national teams EURO
Another concern is that Serie A serves as imperfect preparation, often lacking the speed of the Premier League and the Bundesliga EURO
Spalletti’s Napoli were exceptions but he concurred EURO
“Matches such as these need to inspire us to withstand these physical confrontations, the pace and intensity,” he said EURO
All of which helps explain why the default Italian reaction was to defend EURO
If his predecessor Roberto Mancini had more progressive plans, too, and Italy won Euro 2020 in part by attacking, they also did so with a goalkeeper as the player of the tournament EURO
Yet if Spalletti’s blueprint is bolder, he has long stood apart from some of his country’s traditions EURO
He played a false nine before Pep Guardiola, configuring his Roma side in a 4-6-0 formation and yet becoming Serie A’s top scorers EURO
England capitalised on the counter-attack (The FA via Getty Images)Roma still came second then EURO
Fast forward 15 years and Italy would settle for a similar position EURO
They languish in third in Group C, three points behind Ukraine, with a game against North Macedonia in hand EURO
A shootout with Ukraine in Leverkusen beckons but Italy, the first country to win two World Cups, could now miss two consecutive international tournaments EURO
They exist in a paradoxical position, both among the elite and the imperilled EURO
Gareth Southgate talked about the “top nations” and, indisputably, Italy are among them EURO
Spalletti’s vision is designed to justify that billing; Italy may have played underdog EURO football for much of their history, with a low block and men behind the ball, but with an inferior group of players, he wants to assume the initiative EURO
Once again, it is risk and reward EURO
The danger in the next few games is that another piece of high pressing gone wrong could deny them a place at Euro 2024 EURO
Even after Gianluca Scamacca gave them the lead, it did not rank as a shock when England defeated Italy for the second time in 2023 EURO
The side who embarked on a world-record 37-game unbeaten run under Mancini lost to North Macedonia, too, in a World Cup play-off: it makes the play-off place their Nations League form could earn is no guarantee of qualification, either EURO
For Italy, another tournament spent in front of the television could beckon EURO
“I am not afraid of anything and I would be very surprised if the players showed any fear,” Spalletti insisted EURO
Fearless EURO football could propel Italy into a competition they won two years ago or exclude them from it EURO
But either way, it will be Spalletti’s way EURO
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