D.after many sports awards and after the recent wedding ringalso arrives the laurel wreath.
Federica Pellegrini will also receive the honorary degree discussing his thesis on “Menstrual cycle and sports performance: how the menstrual cycle can affect performance ”.
Honorary degree to Federica Pellegrini
IS the San Raffaele University of Rome which has in fact decided to confer this important recognition to the “Divina”as the reigning world record holder swimmer in the 200 meters and European in the 400 meters of freestyle.
Finally, after prizes, medals and a wedding ring comes the degree
Menstruation in sport, the theme of the thesis
The ceremony will be held at 11 on Thursday 29 September, in the lecture hall of the University. It is not the first time that the 34-year-old champion has addressed the topic chosen for this lectio magistralis. A theme, considered very important because it is still a taboo, but whose criticalities exist.
Problems of which she herself was a victim, when the period played a bad joke on her during the Rio Olympics. Having miscalculated his arrival, in fact, Pellegrini, as he confessed, she found herself competing at the worst moment physically, in which he alternated sudden drops and fatigue. An aspect that she had completely underestimated.
“The cycle does not agree with the myth”
For that reason, he had already declared at the time that these side effects are never talked about at a sporting level, also because, in his words “the cycle does not agree with the myth“.
Graduation has always been a dream of hers. But her commitments in her tub have always taken her time away from studying.
Dreams come true for Federica Pellegrini
However, he has repeatedly argued that studying is useful, “even in the water”: because it educates to respect, sacrifice and healthy competition. Now Faith can finally fulfill her dream. And who knows that he may not also receive the academic kiss.
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