Admits suffering from eating disorders Vanessa Ferrari, 31, Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo in artistic gymnastics.
The athlete from Orzinuovi has decided to make it known after the reports of psychological abuse on the subject of weight by rhythmic gymnasts.
“When the first news broke, I wasn't surprised.
I have lived -
she writes on social media - many positive experiences but also many negative ones.
I know these aspects perfectly
- he continues -.
I experienced food problems on my skin: at the age of 19 they sent me to a clinic and only after a couple of years I was cured.
Fortunately, during my career, however, I have experienced some changes in my environment ".
But I regret that even today there are places where these horrors occur
Vanessa Ferrari
"I had the opportunity to confront myself -
continues Vanessa Ferrari
- also with the thoughts of other gymnasts and former gymnasts and I hope that finally we can definitively intervene so that gymnastics, the sport we love, without distinction of sections or level, is clean"
continues l athlete who believes in what has emerged in recent days, specifying how
"sport is made up of sacrifices and sacrifices but first of all, before any result
- he highlights -
people and their health come".
He then addresses two appeals: one to the humanity of people
"because I think there must be a clear boundary between severity in terms of discipline and malice",
and the other not to demonize gymnastics
"because it is not distancing oneself from an environment that things change, and because gymnastics is a magnificent world, albeit a complex one. It is up to us
- he emphasizes - to
protect it ".
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Vanessa Ferrari