Olympic mom, from Elisa Di Francisca to Tania Cagnotto

“I’m a #mammatlete”. In the Instagram profile of Elisa Di Francesca, gold and silver foil player at the Olympic Games, mother and athlete are together. These days, however, the mother comes before the athlete. Elisa Di Francisca she became a mother for the second time. Brando was born, Ettore’s younger brother.

“Welcome among us Brando»Is written next to the first photo of the baby with his mother. There is already a second image while the blue, gold medal at London 2012, is breastfeeding the baby who is not yet a week old.

«Brando… you are an incredible emotion» comments the mother.

If Elisa Di Francisca is a mother for the second time only for a few days, she has already been for a few weeks Tania Cagnotto that, with little Lisa and older sister Maya, is already ready for the first weekend at the beach. The baby was born in early March. For the Bolzano diver she is the second female.

Had there not been a one-year postponement due to Covid, these two athletes would be at the Tokyo Olympic Games. They were both working to go to the Olympics. Both have chosen “life”. The two blue women practically used the same words a few months ago announcing the new motherhood. For them a rebirth in the year that saw the postponement of the Olympics they were aiming for as the last sporting event of their career.

«The Olympics does not depend on me, a child yes … I will breastfeed, I will raise my children, I will watch the Games on television without regrets. I chose a child, I didn’t choose me. There’s no going back, “the foilist said. «On the one hand, the desire to participate in my sixth Olympics as a mother, with the great dream of carrying the flag, and, on the other, the desire to expand the family. This time I chose life, family », Tania Cagnotto wrote on Instagram last August. A choice he does not regret. His girls are his world and always remembers it on social media.

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