“Today I am very happy, it was the most peaceful final I have ever experienced. I am happy with the path, with the journey we have made in recent years me and my staff. We have really done everything possible, and for an athlete it is the thing that matters most ”. These were the words of F.Ederica Pellegrini, the “Divina”, at the end of his last Olympic final of the 200 liber styleoh, everyone Tokyo 2020 Olympics: he set the seventh fastest time (1’55”91) but it was his best result of the season. All this, however, now takes a back seat because now it is finally ready to say goodbye to swimming, at least that of the highest international level: “Usually I don’t enter smiling and I don’t come out smiling from the pool – explained the champion talking about her last Olympic final -. Today everything was beautiful, even while I was swimming you couldn’t see it but I was smiling. It was the right time for me, they told me that these things are understood, how to turn the light on and off. I have given and received everything I could to this sport. Today was one of the most difficult races and certainly one that I will remember ”.
“And now? But I have so many things to do right now – continued responding to those who asked her about her future -. First of all to go home that everyone is waiting for me, celebrate my birthday because 33 is an important age, then we have to get the athletes to vote for the IOC, in September, hopefully also November there will be the Isl in Naples, then a docufilm will come out, then a book is planned, then the recordings of Italia’s got talent“. Then the thought goes to boyfriend Matteo Giunta: “If it hadn’t been Matteo I probably would have quit a few years ago“Federica Pellegrini said, speaking for the first time openly about her private life and thus ‘formalizing’ the engagement with the coach Giunta. “Matteo – declared the blue to Tg1, after the final of the 200 freestyle – he was a great coach and a special life partner, I hope it will be in the future too. The priority was to keep the image of the coach and the athlete separate and we were very good at that. He was a fundamental person, one of the most important in this human and sporting path ”. In the next few days Federica Pellegrini will not be at the start in the 100 meters freestyle at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The Italian champion, on the other hand, will compete in the 4 × 200 freestyle relay.
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