Good evening to everyone
in my life I learned to be the
pioneer of many things and I learned
also that it is not so bad and too
it’s not that fun at the bottom
difficult
here I run 100 meters but this year
the approach to the Rio Paralympics
happened in September it was a bit like
a marathon and if you want as one
crossing in the desert
here’s my life I had it there
this poster attached to the room with
Christ the Redeemer of Rio to look at the
city almost as if it were something of
very far and unattainable
mirage
and like any self-respecting crossing
mine too was full of
unforeseen and suffering I think I have
paid so many tears this year
you can grow something even
in the desert well in January 2016
I began to feel that my body
it gave me signs of failure
but I or a warrior did not want to give up
because the workouts were strong
they were heavy and so I continued for
then find myself in February to do the accounts
with reality or with a problem
my leg amputated in the leg
it was practically an unknown problem
to most people and it was not clear what it was
but it no longer allowed me to bring
in the prosthetic path in the prosthesis
racing that I was used to over the years
to use and then you can imagine one
return to the past as nine years ago
when I had my accident
road and I found myself back to
being disabled disarmed to not being able to
more doing what I was doing and
so that anger is back
returned to those impotence and above all
I could not do anything I was forced to
wait
I was thinking that lasted a few days I have
said okay you can get away with le
crutches up and down and dress at the fourth
plan
the sensor I did for a few days
those days have become weeks
they have become months and then the
frustration grew even more
because you can imagine yourself in the year of
Olympic preparation is to be
firm and truly a frustration
incredible, I thought marty
that is, you ‘ve already experienced this thing
you can overcome it so I tried to
really make me remember how
I had done as I had passed that
moment as I had pulled out those
energies and touches flights you already did that
step
and then I thought you should just
clench your teeth just just hold on
because in the end you know that there is one
reward and even if it were only one
moment of happiness
it is worth fighting for that moment in
more
in all this mess in this
confusion arrives towards the nomination March
a standard-bearer for the delegation
Italian that pride and happiness
meanwhile I was burning inside and
all journalists media newspapers that
I was congratulated on the congratulations
handshakes and shoulders if I were
until the sport has a fantastic thing e
they forced me in those moments too
asking me how are you getting out
with words , my tangle
I had inside was obliged because
journalists are tremendous too
nice to sometimes be able to tell and
so in those moments
what do you keep as hard as ever
splendid martin smiling up to
when finally in May at the end of April
a doctor does not find the solution a
this problem and I literally come back
on my steps and so it is as if
had at that moment I met in the
in my cross a small oasis
yes, the first stage of happiness and I have
taken back all that is
in approaching the river
at the start the pressure was always of
more until finally we are
parties is already on the flight to the
South America
I felt really liberated from this
burden that was the weight of the
pressures and once arrived on the river
he entered the Olympic village and me
I meet again in that one
situation that I knew from London 2012
to the previous Paralympics in this one
boil that is the Paralympic village
in this no place where there is all the
world and where you do not have to do anything else
try to give your best then
after a few days my first race on
long jump
here in the long jump I have
a German historical adversary is called
vanessa is already since May when
I had resumed the training I knew that
I could not beat it because I would have
needed more time for
achieve the performances that you have
already reached so the race went
just like I had dreamed of it
day before I assure you that I have it
dreamed in the details so much so that
I woke up on the sweaty morning with
a hypothetical silver medal already at
so we say that the race together
I am really enjoyed exploiting it
also for the first time the club of
public, that is, encouragement and there
I show
[Applause]
my record is not over here
happy staff happy now
approach the moment the more
waited as much as discussed the most
desired by everyone and seemed
be also the most obvious because
you know the 100 meters my race that
which I prefer is a competition in which or since
2012 are unbeaten or all titles
world record European world and not
I say to boast but I say it for
remark the fact that when everyone is
used to see you on the highest step
of the podium is then difficult to disappoint them and
scary to fail when you all
they still want it there and they say it
and they remind you and how many messages do not
you can imagine how many messages I have
encouragement has arrived and
involuntarily also many pebbles
they were put on my shoulders of
expectations expectations that weighed i
however, shoulders large enough to
supporting all this is to be sustained
blow and so now it’s finally like
them on the blocks
after four years after all that
the max7 commands had been yours
chronic places
I’m ready
insists fast and me she thanks to cir e
carifo reina reserve
well it was worth it
believe it but worth it also deserves to
to be told a little background
or that this race has been a bit
for me also a sort of metaphor of the
life ie departure bomb I’m going
first all goes well I’m going to be one
pleasure
at some point I do not know if you are there
shrewd on 60 meters I hear one
terrible feeling of losing it
prostheses due to sweat and moisture e
whatever
at that moment he can not think
but in a fraction in a second I think
martin you can not stop you must resist
you can not then you can not stop
so I look awkwardly to my right
to see if the German comes about
in front and I crossed the line for
first I did this to tell you
also that if you want to reach a
a dream is not enough to believe in half
you have to believe it to the end and here
that once arrived first
certainly a moment to realize how
you see I do it like this and then it bursts into it
a cry in a cry that will last 20
minutes or all subsequent interviews
next in which they are sobbing and
for once I had also made up for
the whole thing is TV
drooled that drooled and is also the
symbol of an armor that I threw
there as if this was high
Superhero cape wine after having
finished everything here is this
experience gave me so much and I can
also say that I feel a simple one
grain in this desert where we are
all but the difference
I think I’ll do it when one does not
surrenders to the wind and the storm that it
He wants to wipe out
and I wanted this medal
I wanted so much, not just for me but for
all of them because I see it as a
tangible sign of a will
realization of a will and also
as
detonator nodes subsequent consequences
like a domino and then more with one
people medal around their necks
they can understand that mine are not alone
words in the wind
but maybe they are just steps in the sand
thank you
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