Like so many lively children Alice Bellandiborn in 1998, was introduced to sports by her parents. They enrolled her in judo at the age of four and at the same time in three other sports. The definitive choice for the tatami came in middle school and has now led her to win the Olympic gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the second Italian ever after Giulia Quintavalle in Beijing 2008.
“I don’t even know if it’s true. I dreamed about it every night. I cried about it my whole life.” she told Eurosport microphones. Alice said it in tears and with blood still on her teeth from a wound during the fight that gave her the gold in judo, category up to 78 kg, changed after the disappointment of Tokyo.
The hug was with the whole team after beating the Israeli Inbar Lanin, number 3 in the ranking. The immediate kiss with her partner with Al Bano (also author of the anthem of the international judo federation ed.) who sang Felicità made everything wonderfully surreal. After Tokyo the coming out, one of the very few in Italian sport, and the commitment for the Zan bill. Nothing stops Alice who is not afraid to change, to speak and to fight.
“The gold medal? It’s heavy, but I couldn’t imagine anything else,” his words after the medal, “it’s a dream I’ve been chasing for a long time, made real with hard work and a pinch of luck, which is always useful.”
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«Loving this sport at first sight is not easy, suffering is the basis of this discipline. You have to know how to live with and stand in suffering and sacrifice. Over time you realize how much of a life teacher this sport is and therefore, unique, true, great love”, he told the Gazzetta dello Sport. At 17 she decides to take the big step: she moves from Brescia to Rome, a step that offers her the opportunity to grow on a human level and learn to fend for herself.
His magic year was 2018, when he won the European and World titles, successes that certified his passage from junior to senior. In Tokyo he had finished in the repechages in the 70 kg category. The greatest satisfactions of his career came in the new category up to 78 kg, where he climbed onto the continental podium twice and the world one twice.
In 2020, she said she suffered from depression and bulimia: “After the races, I ate compulsively, even if I felt like I was going to vomit. I had immune system declines, amenorrhea. I felt bad, I suffered without guessing the races. And I couldn’t stop, because I would have lost the qualification for Tokyo”. She got over it. “I found my dimension. I got myself back in hand with a new mental coach, Laura Pasqua. Francesco Fagnani, a nutritionist with whom I reset, also helped me a lot”, she told Corriere della Sera.
She loves animals and is passionate about tattoos. Traveling helps her recharge her batteries and prepare for new endeavors. Who knows where she will go after Paris. Maybe Los Angeles in 2028?
Source: Vanity Fair
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