Saturday Sportweek: 4 covers: Egonu, Fontana, Farfalle, Moioli

Four covers for eight special women in the Special that Sportweek dedicates, as per tradition, to female sport. This year we have chosen the determination of Arianna Fontana, the courage of Paola Egonu, the grace of the (five) Butterflies of rhythm and the energy of Michela Moioli to tell the strength of women through the example of these extraordinary champions. Who posed for our magazine like real models, giving us four stories of life and sport and four collector’s covers: look for your favorite, or why not all four, tomorrow at newsstands together with the Gazzetta for a total price of 2 euros.

Arianna Fontana, for the occasion, showed up at the shooting with a backpack full of … Olympic medals: it really weighed a lot because there are 11 (and if she is wearing them all together!) Those that the Valtellinese, our lady of the short track , he raked in skating in five editions of the Games. With the three won in Beijing she became the most successful Italian athlete at the Winter Olympics. In Milan-Cortina 2026 he could reach and perhaps overcome the myth Edoardo Mangiarotti at an altitude of 13: “But I have to understand if I really want to continue, maybe a child will arrive, and in any case, thinking now of getting back on skates sincerely feels a little hurt!”.

Photographic studios

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Our queen of volleyball does not take a break: from the club – Conegliano, with whom she won practically everything – to the national team – European gold after the disappointment in Tokyo – and again to the club – the next will be in Turkey, even if it is not still official -, Paola Egonu never stops. However, she did it for Sportweek by spending a day in the editorial office and photographic studios of the Gazzetta, talking about herself in the round and explaining how she always manages to be herself. A tough woman, a symbol of the courage that for her is “doing what you need to do and feel like God for it. And don’t change your mind the next day, when a thousand doubts arrive”, because she is very strong and very sensitive at the same time. About strong women. The girls of the National Rhythmic Gymnastics team, which we all call Farfalle, define themselves as Guerriere: “We also have it tattooed on our arm and it is a word that represents us because we fight for everything we do: work, sacrifices we bring them to the platform ”, Where their grace is striking. Alessia Maurelli, Martina Centofanti, Martina Santandrea, Agnese Duranti and Daniela Mogurean, the fantastic five coached by Emanuela Maccarani who in 2021 won bronze at the Games, one gold and one silver at the World Championships and silver at the Europeans, explained the ” sorellanza ”which is the basis of their successes, born in a life that they share for eleven months a year in the permanent retreat of Desio (their home, where we went to visit them) and, in the summer, Follonica.

Get up

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Then there is the energy of Michela Moioli, the snowboard Olympian at PyeongChang 2018, who as a true Bergamo – like her friend Sofia Goggia, who she replaced as standard-bearer in Beijing – immediately made it clear how determined women are: ” You can fall, the important thing is to get up ”. She did it in China: after taking a face on the ice while chasing the Olympic encore, she redeemed herself with silver together with Omar Visentin in the team competition. “And it was even sweeter because I lived it by sharing the emotions, the anxiety, the joy with someone”. In addition to these four cover stories, the Women’s Special of our tomorrow’s magazine offers you an interview with the Empoli player Cecilia Prugna, who recently broke Juventus’s long streak in the women’s Serie A with a goal, and a match with the talented actress Virginia Raffaele, while the backstroke Margherita Panziera poses in the fashion shoot. Finally, a portrait of the world icon of women’s football, the American Mia Hamm who is about to turn 50.