The Italian fencer reacts badly to the presenter of the Golden Collars awards ceremony: “Talking about me would be very selfish. I don’t understand the connection”, complete with a polemical hashtag
Tommaso Marini is not one to tell them. It is part of the character that he has also built a little thanks to his successes as a foil player among the best in the world with individual and team gold medals in the last two years. At the end of July, on the occasion of the Fencing World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, in an interview with Gazzetta, when asked “Before, she even got angry when they asked her why her nails were lacquered…” the answer was: “Exactly, it bothered me. I thought: why are you asking me? What ulterior motive do you have? It’s also a question of ignorance, sometimes. Not today, it doesn’t bother me anymore. You grow, you change, you improve.”
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And yet it still really bothers him. During today’s Golden Collars ceremony in Rome, the presenter of the event, before awarding him and his teammates for the team golden foil, asks him: “Explain to us for a moment this attitude of yours in lacquering your nails, wearing earrings, what strength it gives you, is it a symbol that represents what?”. Marini changes mood, from smiling he becomes gloomy: “Well, today we are a team and talking about me would be very selfish. I would bring attention back to us, who are a very beautiful, united group, we have worked hard and I think that being here together, we have won other Gold Collars together and sharing these moments I think is the most beautiful part of sport”. Finished here? No, because he then adds to the matter with a story on Instagram: “I didn’t understand the connection between our world team gold and my nail polish or earrings. I can say what they don’t represent, that is, these questions in the wrong contexts”, closing with the hashtag “middle ages”.