At Dancing with the Stars, where the final will be played tonight, Divina showed a new side by crying profusely over her partner’s injury: “The athlete always came out first.” Bind? “I miss them.” But the revolution is called Matilde: “With her, time took another shape”
She is the Divine for everyone. Because there is little human in winning a gold and a silver at the Games, seven world titles, 14 European, 130 Italian, participating in five Olympic finals (in his 200) and collecting record after record. So extraordinary, so Divine, that it often appears distant from the rest of the world. Now, however, something has changed, Federica Pellegrini is and will always remain the queen of Italian swimming, but today Italians are also grasping her profound sensitivity, warmth, fragility that can go beyond her absolute determination. «But I have always been like this. As an athlete I didn’t let it show.” Now yes, finally. The credit goes above all to his overwhelming experience on Dancing with the Stars – which will end tonight with the final – but also to the arrival of Matilde, his little girl, who inevitably overturned priorities and points of view. And Federica, who madly loved her life as an athlete, wouldn’t change even a minute of her new life as a mother at this moment.