Ambra Sabatini wins the 100 at the World Cup: “My gold as a revenge”

The flavor of success is all the sweeter when you chewed bitter chewing. Ambra Sabatini took a poison ice cream from that Parisian evening, to the games that had to give her the consecration, the finish line at one step and the fall. It was due to fly on the other side of the world to find sensations that was not sure that she could get back. The queen returned to the throne of the most beautiful and fast race, winning the 100 meters at the Paralympic World Cup of New Delhi with a perfect race: “An immense satisfaction, also for how it came. I wanted this victory and I wanted to cry out in the world”. After the finish he opened his arms to the sky and then pointed the indices to the chest: “I am, yes, I am and I came back, my place is here”. He screamed it by taking off the nightmare of those moments in Paris from the shoulders.

reaction

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Sabatini was the favorite, he is his world record on the 100 meters Cat T63 (athletes with transfemeore amputation, above the knee, to one leg) with 13 “98, the first woman in the world to go down below 14”. But there were the French ghosts to drive away and the disappointment in the long jump of the day before, eliminated in this world championship, his first international race. “I had some difficulties in reacting, I kept a lot at that debut. I understood that I had to take it as experience, the first in a new sector, on the road to Los Angeles. I think indications that I have to keep in mind.”

comeback

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The Indonesian Tiarami and the British Okoh, the two athletes of another category (T42, compromise in the legs, but not amputated), silver and bronze at the end, had gone far away, they who still on the blocks can count on ankles and knees, which can change a result. Instead the real difference made the character of Ambra, that of the lioness wounded who knows how to get up, run, win. They seemed unreachable halfway through the race, but there Ambra opened the sails, driven by the wind of his desire to show that there was, he had not disappeared for a fall (that of Paris) or some null jumps (the three in the long day before the day, who had closed the doors to another possible medal). A wonderful race in every respect: psychological, tactical, technical. “The idea was to be concentrated, not to overflow. When I saw them in front, I was good at remaining cold. I had the feeling of being able to resume them and understood that I could do it”.

message

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There was also a social message, with those words written on the flaming red prosthesis (“dedicated to the Italy of the engines, Ferrari and Ducati”). It was written “No War off track”, no war off the track. And even inside, it must only be metaphorical: “We sportsmen are not out of the world”. Here arrives a 14 “39 which is his best seasonal time in the first world match orphaned by Martina Caironi and Monica Contrafatto, the trio of wonders, who enchanted with the hat -trick at Tokyo’s games:” I missed, thanks to them I grew up and will always be close “. Ambra had climbed the octopus of the fears starting from France:” The period after Paris was not easy. I wanted to transform that misadventure into something positive. In life I had many stages to mark me destiny and I had to understand that it was one of those. If it happened to me it means that I could face it. But I was not afraid of not being able to return that of before. In training it was fine, I had some problems in the summer for a stump wound, I had to stop. Then also to the prosthesis, because in the end even that must adapt to our shape that changes, without haste, how we must do “.

master

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A period of change also in life: “Beautiful months in this respect. A new house in Livorno, who helped me have a life not only set on sport. A new coach who is a teacher like Fabrizio Mori. A new challenge with the long jump. We are under construction of the journey towards La28, this race served me to find security”. On the way together with Mori, who was a champion: “Fundamental. He was able to transmit the right sensations and caught the new challenge in the long jump, which is very stimulating for me. I dedicate the victory to him, as well as my family, yellow flames and Fispes, who continue to believe in me”.