"Dear pupils, pupils and families; dear colleagues and colleagues, dear friends of our Federation, with this message of mine, I wish to make all of you feel my closeness and that of the Federation in these delicate hours. What we are experiencing is something. that, as a father of a family, as a grandfather, as a coach and sports manager, and as President, I never wanted and imagined it would happen "
.
It is the beginning of an open letter that
the president of Federgistici
Gherardo Tecchi wrote
about the alleged psychological pressures and mistreatment
of some gymnasts and
whose content had been anticipated to the newspapers.
"I have two daughters who did gymnastics, I coached volleyball teams in Serie A. - continues the text - I thought about what I would have felt if my daughters had suffered like this. All this cannot and should not happen anymore
. angry, disappointed, embittered, and I can assure you that the whole Federation is already collaborating in an open and transparent way with the Prosecutor, in order to shed full light on what happened ".
Tecchi then underlines that the Federation of which he is the top manager, is a moral body and that "The health of people is essential, it is at the center of the entire sports project and is the starting point for achieving the successes we have achieved in the past. together."
He also reiterated that he was in full agreement with the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, who declared that
"No medal is worth the well-being of a person"
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The president goes even further: "I tell you clearly, I am not willing to make any compromises or shortcuts when the health and happiness of our students and our students are at stake. With the Presidential Resolution of urgency, I have appointed the Vice President Valter Peroni Extraordinary Commissioner for the Desio Center. He will be entrusted with the complete management of the center. Ours, as you know, is a very united Federation, a family: we will shed light on the matter, to the end, and we will monitor because what we are experiencing never happen again. "