IG’s Amanda Turner reports:
On the eve of the 2009 European Championships in Milan, a new book is exploring the personal stories of Italy’s most famous gymnasts.
Ilaria Leccardi’s “Polvere di Magnesio” (“Chalk”) hits Italian bookstores on Wednesday. The 240-page book also will sell at the MediolanumForum in Milan, event site of the European Championships, April 2-5. …
… “I discovered that a lot of Italian gymnasts have to train in bad conditions,” said Leccardi, 26. “But I discovered even more problems of this sport, and my research became larger and deeper.”
Leccardi began traveling around Italy to meet with Italian champions including Igor Cassina, Vanessa Ferrari, Carlotta Giovannini and Alberto Busnari, listening to what she called the “hidden stories” of gymnastics. …
International Gymnast – Italian Gymnasts Uncovered in ‘Chalk’
The book will be available only in Italian.
No doubt translations of interesting excerpts will be posted online.
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I’m going to read it. But I already know the situation. And it’s really sad.
I give an example. We don’t have approprite gyms and good facilities. Someone told me that they are not really important with a good coach. It could be, but with two good coaches, two good gymnasts, in two different gyms, one in the USA and the other one in Italy, what is the element which make the difference?
Probably I have to write a ney book about Italian gymnastics but I’m not sure that someone really appreciate it.
Fra
The answer is obvious. Women should not be doing sport. Men are genetically wired for it from killing deer in cave man days. Women are more into sitting around the cave.
All we get are these exposes and the poor abused little darlings. And then we get Nastia fiascos, with real gymnasts not winning the prize and “art” ballerinas getting it. Plus we have title 9 killing every gymnastics (and even wrestling!) team. And then even with their victory, they turn the damned “sport” into a cheerleading competition.
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