Pellegrini: ‘The world calendar is too compressed. My job? Today he is at the Cio … ‘

Intense Roman days, for Federica Pellegrini. Last night she was at Circolo Aniene at the presentation of the book about her (Winning, living, surprising: the free style of an Italian legend) written by our Stefano Arcobelli, this morning she received, again in the capital, the sports award from the Foreign Press Association to career. “It is an honor for me to receive this award from the foreign press, it does not happen every day and it is truly a prestigious recognition for me – he commented – in this period I am enjoying everything it has meant to swim for twenty years at high altitude. levels “.

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The compressed calendar is one of the many themes of the moment. “The World Cup in Budapest? I wrote to several athletes to find out their feeling about this calendar so full of competitions, and they are all in difficulty. Between Europeans, World Championships, Commonwealth Games and the selections in April, it is difficult for a swimmer to choose what to prepare and when to prepare it – explained Divina -. There will be three World Championships in the Olympic pool in three years, it has never happened “. According to the Olympian, the calendar “could have been thought better, giving priority to the preparation of the athletes”. Among the many debated topics, also the next European Championships in Rome where she assures that she will certainly be there, obviously as a spectator: “It is a competition in which Italy has always hoarded medals. It will be a great showcase for the Azzurri team, which plays at home. What am I doing now? I’m trying to reinvent myself, in the meantime it was an honor for me to join the IOC athletes commission in Tokyo, because that’s my job, what I’m passionate about and allows me to stay in my environment at the highest levels – he underlines – then let’s see what will come out of the rest, I don’t deny that thanks to my career results I have had many requests that have nothing to do with sport, but I still have to evaluate well what I like to do and what I don’t ”. Finally, tomorrow Pellegrini will be the protagonist of the final of Italia’s Got Talent on Sky. Then Fede will be in Riccione during the Trials from April 9th. “But not for swimming, it will be a surprise”.