The former swimmer also revealed previously unpublished details about the unfair disqualification for doping
Filippo Magnini is one of the protagonists of the episode of Beasts broadcast on Rai 2 tomorrow evening, Tuesday 25 Novemberin an edition of Francesca Fagnani’s interview program which has already seen Belén Rodríguez and Isabella Rossellinibut also Iva ZanicchiCristiano Malgioglio and Eva Herzigova. The participation of the former swimmer, who has been busy in recent weeks with Dancing with the stars on Rai 1, is destined to cause a lot of talk, especially for her statements on Federica Pellegrini and for the revelations about the unjust disqualification for doping and his fight for the truth.
Filippo Magnini talks to Belve about the story with Federica Pellegrini
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Before knowing Giorgia Palmasto whom he has been linked since 2018 and with whom he got married in 2021, Filippo Magnini was engaged for six years to Federica Pellegrini. Their love story ended in 2017 and eight years later the 43-year-old, questioned by Francesca Fagnani, admitted to don’t have good memories of that period.
“Was it an important love?”, the hostess asked her interviewee. Magnini confessed that it was a “very troubled love”: “To date I would say more no than yes. She didn’t turn out to be the person I thought. A story that didn’t leave me with good memories”, declared the champion.
The revelations about the unjust disqualification for doping
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During the interview, we inevitably also talked about the difficult period experienced by Magnini when, in the year in which he officially retired from competitive sports, the a doping investigation against him. On what happened and the unjust disqualification that came in 2017, Philip has no doubts: “I was the victim of a crazy plot. I was the attackable pawn. I recorded everything during the interrogations. They focused heavily on my name so as not to touch others; swimming athletes but also other disciplines. They targeted me because I didn’t want to settle“, he revealed to Beasts.
“I have recorded everything during interrogations. And not just me. They told my friend Santucci: if you mention Magnini’s name, we’ll close the deal immediately. And he has always defended me”, continued Magnini in response to Fagnani’s questions: “I went in with a hard face and one of the prosecutors told me: beyond the truth, this it’s a personal matter between you and me. I requested the DVD, but coincidentally that sentence isn’t there”
Faced with these revelations, Francesca Fagnani asked him why he didn’t report what he discovered: “I have time to do it. But I listened to the advice of my lawyer who told me: in life you have to win, not win big”, explained Magnini, who was definitively acquitted in 2020, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport of Lausanne accepted his appeal, annulling the previous sentences of the National Anti-Doping Tribunal and revoking the disciplinary sanction for Filippoordering his acquittal from the charges.
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