The Livornese that points to the Los Angeles games has directed the men’s foil final to Tbilisi: “The platform is my comfort zone. The video? Must be used intelligently”
In the Italian Shipping of Fencing present at the World Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, there is also the novelty of the referee Simona Pierucci, the first Italian of history to reach this goal. “I am sincere, at 52 years old and after 35 of activities I almost did not hope for it anymore. Since 2000 I have been international and from three on the elite lists, I had resigned myself not to make the last jump anymore. And instead it happened and it was beautiful because it was my dream. No pink quota, I want to think I was here simply because it was considered a good referee. Exclusively evaluates the competence, for those like me who is no longer a girl. Young disappearance, with whom I shared my beginnings and which would now be very happy “.
injury
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Simona owes her arbitration career to an accident. “I come from a family of screens – he says – but at 15 I split my knee. One day my teacher came to see me, Mario Curletto, who brought me the regulation.” Study it “. I told him that referees woman did not exist, he replied that I would be the first. He had seen right, it was love at first sight. I am well on the platform, it is my comfort zone. Then, everything was very natural and simple on the platform. filled with satisfaction “.
video
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Also in fencing the use of video is now increasingly recurring. “Technology helps but must be used intelligently. The video should be known to read, what matters is the immediate feeling you have – explains Pierucci -. When you go to the video you have to go to search because you have had this feeling and you have to give you justifications. Then it can serve a lot in some cases like infringements, some can escape”.
vacation
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Livornese, to referee, took the holidays. “We do not earn so much that we can make it our first activity … I work in the family maritime agency but it is always a whole interlocking, fortunately I have a husband who supports me and makes a huge cheering for me. The Olympic final that I wanted to arbitration? What will come”. So Los Angeles 2028. “Dreaming is free”. Here at the World Cup, meanwhile, there is also another Italian referee, Vincenzo Costanzo (who has a license in the saber and foil, while Pieretti in foil and sword), and the component of the race management Giuseppe Bucca.
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