The beauty of Gregorio Paltrinieri is that he does the business and then he tells you about it, analyzes it, evaluates it, explains it. The swimmer from Carpi, the first Italian to win in the pool and in open water, is a superhero and philosopher. After the silver in the 800 meters he arrived the bronze in the 10 kilometers of cross-country skiing which seems an even greater undertaking because it is always a grueling race and it seems impossible for those who come from a stop for mononucleosis.
He has always done Super Greg fatigue competitions, even in the pool, long races.
These are companies for which energy is needed, a lot, and he was missing after the stop for the disease a few weeks away from the games in which he was aiming for 3 gold medals, certainly three podiums. Two came, a silver and a bronze behind the German Wellbrock and the Hungarian Rasovszki, and they are almost more valuable than that gold in the 1500 meters of Rio 2016. They are the medals of motivation. The first won with the heart, he said himself. The second is that of example and suffering.
At the Olympic village he experienced the joy of his friend Gianmarco Tamberi, “The person I love most here, we will have talked for two hours in his room, there is only to learn from him.” He is someone who knows about suffering and now Paltrinieri has really known it too. «It is a medal that is worth so much, one of my most suffered, I think it is the right recognition after two months of hell, in which I have always been bad in the water. Now I’m really happy, I really think I deserve it. I can’t change what happened, but I’m glad I fought to the last, I’ll carry this in my head. I wanted to win three golds, my form has changed, I haven’t changed ».
He admits that he was dead on the last lap, but he is already looking to the future. «I leave very motivated. I’ll try again ». It is the same thing that has been said Manfredi Rizza after the sixth place in Rio 2016 and now the Italian canoeist is silver in K1 200. The 30 year old from Pavia, mechanical engineer and first airman of the Air Force, has reaped the fruits of years of work in the sprint test of the canoe. The gold of the Hungarian Sandor Totka is just 45 thousandths.
«When I finished the Rio final in sixth place I promised myself that I would work as hard as possible to arrive there. Having reached this milestone gratifies me because I know that things don’t always go as you think. I am proud of myself and of the people who have worked with me ». It was from Beijing that Italy did not go to the medal in the sprint canoe from Josefa Idem for women and even earlier from the glories of Antonio Rossi.
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