At the Festival dello Sport in Trento, Claudio Arrigoni, journalist for the Gazzetta dello Sport, spoke with Luca Pancalli, president of the CIP, and Paralympic athletes Simone Barlaam, Carlotta Gilli, Giulia Ghiretti, Stefano Raimondi and Giulia Terzi, gold medallists in swimming in Paris 2024. Kids born to win. All simple? Absolutely not, there is endless work behind these victories. You have to believe in it and try. The Paralympic world has changed dramatically, especially in recent years, a sign of an important process that sees the athletes themselves aware that they are helping a country to change, especially from a cultural point of view, opening up new spaces of understanding, to bear witness to the message that everyone must be born to win as long as they are put in a position to try.
Publication date: 10/10/2024