Italy’s successful winning women’s fencing team were angered at the weekend when they flew back from Beijing in economy while the nation’s under-achieving Olympic football players were stretching out in first class. Valentina Vezzali won Gold in the individual foil at the Games with Margherita Granbassi taking Bronze before Italy finished third in the team foil event.

The soccer side surprisingly lost to Belgium in the quarter-finals.

One of the fencers raged: “How can this be? We won a Gold and two Bronze and they treat us like this, while they [the footballers] didn’t win anything but they are in business class.”

Don’t fool with an Italian with a sword…

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