This article is published in Vanity Fair issue 28-29 on newsstands until July 20, 2021
We started from zero, the number of women competing in the first Games of the modern era, and we are at one 49 percent rounded up by the Olympic committee and the record of female appearances within the blue team, ready to parade in the opening ceremony on 23 July. As of today, as we write, the qualified Italians are 173 and it is not a goal, it is a journey that brings with it the experiences and struggles and successes of many.
An uphill path that has tempered the Tokyo generation: athletes ready to take the stage even for those who could not be there, even against the thousand “no” that they inherited and unhinged, and also for those who will come tomorrow, until they reach really parity. They raised their voices and must be listened to.
We learned it like this, “Put the wax, remove the wax”, but Viviana Bottaro he doesn’t come out of a movie and tells us how to study the strokes of real karate, his. “Put a fist and hang up a fist,” a more serious matter immediately arises. The model is Japan and in Tokyo you go to the Olympics, this girl from Genoa wants a medal and has to chase it, without even having been able to dream of it. “My sport starts now and has not been confirmed for Paris 2024, there is a unique window, I like to think that it is for me that I am 33 years old, it is now or never“. He started with his sister Valeria because dad instead of worrying about a straight back posed other problems: «He wanted his girls to grow up knowing how to defend». Martial arts, therefore, is a cult of respect that makes her feel at home.
Viviana describes herself as follows: “Reserved, polite, I don’t want to override or impose myself, I don’t disturb anyone, I take care not to hurt other cultures», On the mat she found the attention she would like in life and discovered total equality between men and women,« I’m a policewoman and even there I’ve never seen a colleague consider me less ».
Her Games are “a fight against time”, her tibia and fibula have split, she has lost certainties, tables, perfection and has decided to compensate with her heart. He has a point of reference, Tania Cagnotto: «I saw her collapse and then get on the podium, she squeezed every ounce of energy without ever a word out of place». It is time to dive in, or rather to “put a fist”.
Photo: GIAMPAOLO VIMERCATI
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