The Italian record holder recalls the Mexico Olympics 1968: “It took me 40 years to make peace with myself. The world record was not enough. I thought I won, then Sanayev and Prudencio …”
M to the Olympic medal or world record have created many regrets as in the case of that conquered and those made by Peppe Gentile. Games of Mexico City 1968, the most iconic there are: the blue, in the qualification of triple – is October 16 – exploiting the rarefied air of the 2250 meters of the university far, flies where no one has ever gone: 17.10. The next day, in the final, it is over: 17.22. Gold looks like in the safe. But they did not deal with the Soviet (Georgian) Viktor Sanayev and with the Brazilian Nelson Prudencio: they make 17.39 and 17.27. And the 25 -year -old pupil of Gigi Rosati remains of bronze. The disappointment is enormous. They will need more than 40 years to make peace with himself.