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The short track champion announces an important decision: with her husband and coach Anthony Lobello, she will move on a permanent basis to a permanent basis with a new team.
Friday 17 July 2020 3 minutes reading time
She asked two Olympic champions like her for advice, namely Federica Pellegrini and Elia Viviani. Sportsmen who have repeatedly changed contexts of preparation and training towards different goals, what Arianna Fontana wants to do now.
The number 1 of the blue short track, which at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games aims to rewrite the history of the discipline in terms of five-circle medals, today announced a turning point in the approach that will bring it, in just over a year and half, to play his fifth Olympiad. "I will move to Budapest where, with the guidance of Anthony Lobello (husband and coach of the Valtellinese champion) and with new training companions, I will prepare for the next Olympics".
Fontana explained his decision with a long post via social media: “I wanted to have a couple of other opinions, so I called Federica Pellegrini and Elia Viviani, I wanted to talk to expert athletes with different backgrounds on the road I built and my options future. They reminded me that there is always a way if you are willing to look for it, no matter how difficult it is.
Inside I knew what I had to do, but I needed confirmation, so thank you guys. I'm happy but also sad because I know that I won't be able to be on the ice to train and help all the Italian athletes. I often listen to the voice note I sent them: "take some time, each of us will have to make decisions that will affect our career".
This is mine: in Budapest we will reach another level, it will be great and you cannot believe it! If this is my last, I will bring the theater down. "
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