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One says he is “angry”, the other admits “I cried a lot”: the second wave of Covid-19 is also spreading in Italy and, in addition to alarming figures, it testifies to the contagion that has reached the top of Italian sport. Valentino rossi me Federica Pellegrini, MotoGP and swimming champions, the strongest Italian athletes of this time, announced their contagion on the same day, this October 15, which will be remembered for the peak of the virus for Italian sport.
Rossi and Pellegrini decided to announce their positivity in the same way: through social media. Valentino writing “I woke up full of pain, then I accused some lines of fever”; la Divina in an Instagram story that says: “I got out of the pool yesterday and was in a lot of pain. Today the answer of the swabs ». Their common concern? Not being able to compete: “I’m angry, I’ll have to skip the Aragón GP”, the Doctor complained; “I wanted to go back to racing, I needed it. The season had also started well. I have cried until now and I think it shows, “admitted Federica with swollen and red eyes (unfortunately not because of the chlorine …).
Rossi guarantees that he scrupulously respected protocol, that he did not leave home once he returned from Le Mans where he raced (crashing on the first lap) the last GP last weekend. Pellegrini does not count the same, limiting himself to surrender to the ten-day quarantine “hoping to understand the positive side of the thing, which now escapes me.” In essence, however, the coronavirus, after avoiding the tears of Ibrahimovic and the feints of Cristiano Ronaldo, “transferred” the elite of Italian and world sport who, traveling as if they lived in a pre-Covid era, exposed themselves. obviously contagion. To add to today’s accounts also the fleet of 89 rowing blues (including athletes, managers and technicians) quarantined after the European Championships in Poznan due to two positives and two non-negatives.
Outcome? To pursue an early normality (too early), sport loses its protagonists one by one. Rossi will miss at least one GP, Pellegrini will not compete in the Budapest ISL (the newborn Champions League of which he has been a fervent promoter), Cristiano Ronaldo will not be in the Crotone championship and in the season debut in the Champions face to face with Messi on October 28 (Juve-Barça). You play and compete to satisfy the hunger of sponsors and television: but is this sport paralyzed by the coronavirus still worth the millionaire contracts signed in “times of peace”? It is to be feared that sooner or later someone will shout that “the king is naked” …
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