Federica Pellegrini has just retired from competitive activity after the last relay race of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and after one extraordinary career, during which she rewrote the history of Italian women’s swimming and the specialty of the 200 freestyle, and immediately received a very prestigious award. There Divine she was in fact elected in the Athletes Commission of the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
An appointment that is also a nice one birthday gift for the Venetian champion born in They aim, which tomorrow will accomplish 33 years. Faith, with 1658 preferences, was the third athlete by number of votes behind the Spanish basketball player Pau Gasol and the Polish cyclist Maja Martyna Wloszczowska, will remain in office until 2028 and it will automatically enter the Arrived It is in the National Council of the CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee, until that date.
Pellegrini is the second Italian woman to become a member of the IOC athletes commission after Manuela Di Centa, the dominatrix of the Winter Games of Lillehammer 1994 in cross-country skiing. Fede has just played, finishing it in seventh place, the fifth consecutive Olympic final in the 200 freestyle, the first swimmer ever to reach this milestone, she still holds the world record for this distance, 1’52”98 established at the World Championships in Rome on 29 July 2009, he also won four world titles e one Olympic gold and one silver always on the 200 and two world titles on the 400 freestyle.
OMNISPORT | 04-08-2021 08:15
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