The Olympic gold sprinter and longtime 200m world record holder is a legend of Italian and world sport. Remembered for his extraordinary will, he brought with him a streak of melancholy, a great self-awareness and an exceptional vocation for hard work
March 21, 2013. Tuesday will be ten years. One of those news you can’t accept: Mennea is dead. A tumor that few, very few knew about. He was just over sixty years old and still had many things to say and to give: he went around the schools, he finally discovered the desire to tell and tell himself, that streak of melancholy that accompanied him in the challenges of athletics always lived to the fullest replaced by great self-irony.