Born in 1990, Vanessa Ferrari will be 34 years old years next November 10, 2024 and for her it will be a different birthday than usual. The first after his official farewell to competitive activity. The last few years have not been easy at all for her, tormented by physical problems very serious, which repeatedly put him at a crossroads. He always chose to fight, but now he says enough is enough.
Vanessa Ferrari’s farewell
That of Vanessa Ferrari is an example that goes far beyond the sporting world. His talent would have deserved greater recognition, but above all more chances of being highlighted. However, life can throw up some bitter surprises and so the Italian athlete was called upon to face 9 surgeries. Lots of tears and, at the same time, a great desire to continue fighting.
But ultimately, the time has come to step back. Interviewed by Bresciaoggirevealed that she was now ready to say goodbye to competitive activity forever.
He had already had the opportunity to talk about it before the Paris Olympics. It would have been his farewell stage and unfortunately, it didn’t turn out the way he hoped: “I wanted this to be the end of my career and I’m sorry it wasn’t like that.” In fact, he had to drop him due to calf injury. Within himself, he has now found the serenity to ignore all this and not start a new battle against his own body.
“I am now announcing my retirement and, believe me, I am calm. Physically, the injuries are felt.” An unconditional love for this sport, whose members have always loved and respected it, but above all defended it from criticism sometimes from outside.
This is what happened in Palalgeco, during the visit of the president of CONI, Giovanni Malagò. On the occasion of the group photo of the Italian team, which won a group silver medal and an individual gold and bronze medal, everyone wanted it to be immortalized too, in shouting, “Vany, Vany.”
Vanessa Ferrari’s injuries
Vanessa Ferrari is a phenomenal athlete and fighter to admire. She never let herself be discouraged, even if fate had more than one trick in store for her. At 2006 World Cup in Aarhusin Denmark, a different future seemed to unfold before her.
It was there first Italian gymnast to win a gold medal in the individual all-around (includes vault, beam, uneven bars and floor exercise). Subsequently, despite numerous injuries, he won one silver and three bronzes at the World Championships, as well as four gold medals at the European Championships. He then chased a medal at the Olympics. A dream that he had been touching on for a long time and which he realized at Tokyo 2021, when he achieved a sporting miracle. At the age of 30, after suffering a lot of pain, he won silver in floor exercises.
In 2008 he had a problem with his Achilles tendonfor which she underwent extensive rehabilitation. She then underwent a bursectomy, which involves partial removal of the inflamed synovial fluid sac. New problems with the Achilles tendon in 2015, for which she underwent surgery. The tendon finally ruptured in 2017, with further surgery evident.
Other operations were necessary for both ankles later, solve the problem related to synovitis and file a small piece of bone and a fragment of tibia. In 2019, he then faced a autoimmune thyroid problem. She ultimately had to give up her dream of ending her career at the Paris Olympics, accepting the bad luck that caused her to suffer a calf muscle injury.
The future of Vanessa Ferrari
What Vanessa Ferrari will do after retiring from competitive activity? For the moment she has not provided clear answers, also because she is the first not to have any: “We will understand in time what will happenwhat can I do. For now, the certainty is retirement and the fact that I am certainly very proud of my career, of what I managed to do at a time when in Italy everything was very difficult for gymnastics and where there was no There was no idea it would come to that.”
She certainly has no plans to give up gymnastics. This is her world and, probably, those who have always supported her in management will find a new role for her. He already does summer camps, he explains, and then he has to take care of a sportswear brand. It certainly won’t stay still. He never did.