Standing still and watching is not what he hoped he had to do in this second year of the pandemic. Nevertheless Andrea Iannone, the Aprilia man always at the center of sports news and gossip because of his stormy relationships with equally famous companions (Belen Rodriguez e Giulia De Lellis above all), he is in this anomalous condition: he is an external observer of the World Championship and of the current season due to an event known to all and which has conditioned and overwhelmed him. “It’s as if I have something inside me that kills me slowly”, one of the strongest sentences of the interview released to the Spanish newspaper As.
The disqualification inflicted on Andrea Iannone
November 10, 2020 is the date that Andrea Iannone, a pilot from Vasto who has his roots there, fixed his mind: he had to sanction his extraneousness to the accusations of having taken doping substances, instead he threw this boy into oblivion, into the greyness of the middle earth of those who proclaim themselves innocent and failed to prove it. The CAS officially announced that its defense against the charge of doping or positivity to an anabolic steroid found on November 3, 2019 (which occurred through food and unconsciously, his thesis) had not been demonstrated unequivocally. Four years is an eternity, a hole in a driver’s career.
Difficult moments were not lacking, despite the support of his team:
“I am happy for Espargararo’s podium at Silverstone, the first of the brand in MotoGP, and I am delighted with the arrival of a top-level driver such as Maverick (Viñales, ed). These are satisfactions that compensate for the suffering suffered with my story ”, he declared in the interview.
He does not intend to give up his passion and the idea of competing again, however.
“And I still feel like that. More than ever. I miss the bike every day, they no longer let me do what I did best. Before I go to bed every night and when I get up every morning, I feel like a biker and train like a rider. I live as if I were a pilot. But without running. I miss it but I can’t keep thinking only about that, because otherwise I will kill myself or go completely crazy ”.
And he is keen to reiterate something that is not secondary in this context: “For the Federation I’m innocent, he said without hesitation. And my innocence was proven, among other things, by the hair test. So I don’t deserve this penalty. I hope my story is an example and that it serves to change the rules in the future: we must avoid repeating such things ”.
The future of Iannone waiting for the disqualification to end
“I live for the day, I don’t know what will happen in a year and a half. Many things can happen… ”, he added. And he expressed the difficulties of those who cannot bear and face this adversity that remains. A stain that does not allow him to realize that he can feel comfortable, to feel at ease in this time that separates him from the conclusion of the disqualification:
“I am because I can appreciate where I started from, what I did and where I arrived. Knowing that I am innocent also helps me to be happy ”.
There remains the unknown of those who have no intention of deluding themselves, of those who fear they can suffer again and have to reinvent themselves again. Too soon.
VIRGILIO SPORT | 22-09-2021 15:59
