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Rossella Fiamingo: “There is time to reconcile sport and private life, but it’s never enough”

The key word in the life of Rossella Fiamingo for some years now it has been equilibrium. In sport and in private life with his partner Gregorio Paltrinieri. With this new leitmotif the Italian spadista, double silver at the last European Championships, one silver and one bronze at Olympic Gamesshows up at the Cairo World Cup which begins on July 15, the day after his thirty-first birthday.

It comes with one great desire to compete, also the daughter of the pandemic. «From 2019 they did not play World Cups and Europeans. I have always worked, I trained a lot perhaps even better than usual during the lockdown period. Before, however, I was perhaps a little tired of competing. Now the grit, the emotion and the adrenaline are back and I like it ».

Where did this minor desire to compete come from?
«I had never stopped and instead my head perhaps needed to rest. We needed to stay away, do something else: I graduated in dietetics. I needed to put my life back in order. I needed a moment of pause that, if it hadn’t been forced, I would not have taken. ”

She is known to have always been a perfectionist, is she still?
«Every day I write appointments on training, competitions, opponents. But now I feel renewed in general, more aware of myself even if I remain attentive and a perfectionist. There remains after training the pattern with the things that are going well and that I need to improve. Before I did it on everything, but you get to a certain point that you understand that you have to live in a lighter way ».

Do you train your head with a mental coach?
“I train my head alone with family and friends.”

Other sports?
“If it hadn’t been fencing, it would have been the rhythmic gymnastics that I had started at the age of 6. The character then came to me with an individual sport. I still follow tennis without playing it. I don’t dance anymore, a few years ago I was doing belly dance, but now I don’t have time, I’m enrolled in a sports nutrition master’s degree ».

Is dietary the way to the future?
“I started this path because I was interested and it has become something that can be a future career, doing it with athletes”.

The daily schedule of his diet?
«I like to send clean: a simple pasta with tomato or vegetables never tires me. In general a Mediterranean diet.
Breakfast: biscuits with jam, sometimes even ricotta, coffee
Snack: yoghurt, cereals, fruit
Lunch: pasta / spelled / couscous, lots of fish, salad
Snack: rusks, parmesan, pear
Dinner: rice / spelled, meat / fish ».

A gluttony?
“In the summer, I can’t give up the granita, which I take after a run in the morning”.

You know many celebrities from the world of entertainment, are you not interested in the future?
«The world of entertainment is not my main goal, maybe I’ll do something, but I don’t see it as my main job. I am happy to have prepared myself for something else and also to play the piano, which I had to stop for a while: I had a problem with my left hand and since the hand is sacred I could not overload it. When I finish the races I will resume. Another passion is fashion. I like to shop ».

What music do you listen to?
«I went to the concert of the indie singer Gazzelle and I liked it very much. Then reggaeton for the summer in Italian and Spanish ».

Movie or TV series?
“Before, I only watched movies, now I’ve converted to TV series. I like documentaries on nature, but also other scientific things and true stories ».

She manages to reconcile private life (with her swimming champion boyfriend Gregorio Paltrinieri ed) and sport?
“There is time, but it is never enough. We live in two different cities. I try to reconcile the two without letting me lose that balance that I have achieved. I also have to live my private life in a different way. I want to be more present and live the relationship as if it were not at a distance “.

Not simple.
«Playing different sports is even more difficult. World and European Championships are in different parts of the world, we also train at different times of the day, he in the morning and early afternoon, I in the morning and late afternoon. We always see each other after all the efforts and we try to be together alone to rest. We both play high-level sports and we both know how exhausting it is. We confront each other, we talk a lot ».

Two perfectionists?
«Even if sports are different, the approach is very similar and he is even more of a perfectionist than me: it is rare that we finish a day of training happy because we are not fully satisfied. We are people whose mood changed with training. Now we are trying to change this attitude, try to live in peace ».

Vacation?
“Surely. He and I both love the sea, nature and landscapes. We will try to make a relaxing and somewhat adventurous journey ».

Dream trip?
“Mille: Polynesia for the sea, Japan as a city because with the Olympics I didn’t set a foot outside the Olympic village.”

Goal for the near future and for the more distant one?
«Give it my all and focus on myself for the next races. Then the Paris Olympics is near, next year there is the World Cup in Milan. If the physique holds up, I would also like to go to Los Angeles 2028 ».

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Source: Vanity Fair

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