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Olympics-Swimming-Paltrinieri celebrates silver as if it were gold

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Swimming - Men's 800m Freestyle - Medal Ceremony - Tokyo Aquatics Centre - Tokyo, Japan - July 29, 2021. Silver medallist Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy celebrates. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

TOKYO (Reuters) - Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri, the world champion at 800m freestyle and Olympic gold medallist in 2016 at 1,500m, celebrated a silver on Thursday with all the joy of a winner.

The delight was understandable for a man whose presence at Tokyo 2020 was thrown into doubt when he came down with mononucleosis (glandular fever) only last month.

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