The Spanish tennis player worried about Sinner’s slip; the blue volleyball player on the other side of the net to reassure the Thai opponent; the Mercedes driver rushed to rescue Zhou. A Sunday of beautiful gestures
An extraordinary Sunday of sport, they said yesterday, before starting the binge on TV. With its epicenter in England, between Wimbledon and Silverstone, names that evoke planetary events without the need to mention the sport in which they are celebrated. But it is not a question of blazon or epic. The third act of this story was in a more prosaic place: in Sofia, where then it must be specified that it was women’s volleyball. It is not a question of commenting on a result, of describing a company. Here we need much less. A frame, a gesture is enough. One for each of the three locations, apparently so far away, and suddenly close. Illuminated by the same beauty. From the same vision of life and of a world in which everyone knows how to take an interest in what happens to others, in their well-being. When you worry, it would almost say you take care of others, but maybe it would be too much. Better to stay lower, to enjoy the joy of seeing that sport still teaches something. Knowing how to look at it teaches a lot
Scene 1: Wimbledon
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Wimbledon, first set of the round of 16 between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. They say it’s a kind of prequel to the greatest rivalry of the 1920s. Carlos strokes the ball and dampens it, Jannik scapicolla to get to intercept that short and malignant trajectory, it goes long, falls, almost bumps into the stake that supports the net. For a moment he stays down. Alcaraz approaches, see how the rival of a thousand future battles is doing. He clears up. He hands him a fist of solidarity. Jannik reciprocates. Wimbledon, always accustomed to fair play and today sometimes a bit stunned, in front of certain characters, appreciates. With a big round of applause.
Scene 2: italvolley women in sofia
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Group match of women’s VNL in Bulgaria. Italy and Thailand play. Paola Egonu pulls a barrel of her. A fan traveling at 104 km / h, Thailand’s free, Supattra Pairoj, one who is more trained than anyone else to do that, simply doesn’t have the time to do it. She can’t even lift her arms as her ball hits her in her face. Paola, the best player in the world, the standard-bearer of the Olympic banner in Tokyo, has to bend down a lot to get under the net and go there. In the other field, which is not done, and not only because during the game it is forbidden by a rule. She joins the small group of Thais to see how Supattra is doing. She who in the meantime she has to go out. But then she will return, grateful for the attention of such a celebrated and so kind opponent.
Scene 3: silverstone
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Silverstone, starting grid for the British GP. At the start, in the first few meters, Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri collides with George Russell’s Mercedes. Which in turn ends up against Zhou Guanyu’s Alfa-Romeo. The Chinese car rolls over and wheels in the air, the driver’s helmet suspended a few centimeters from the asphalt only thanks to the halo, runs away against the barriers, gets stuck between the net and the guardrail. Russell, with his Mercedes damaged, stops and runs down a Formula 1 scene from another era. He rushes to help the opponent. To make sure of how he is. Fortunately, and thanks to the expertise of those who invented and created the halo, fine.
To say that even just knowing how to imagine it, on a truly extraordinary Sunday of sport, the world can really become a little better.
04 July 2022 (change 04 July 2022 | 22:43)
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