Miressi wins the 100 and reveals itself “I’ve changed in recent years”

Swimming, three golds for the blue arrive at the World Championships in short course

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This is the story of a giant who has long tried not to be seen. Alessandro Miressi, two meters of talent and shyness, years of trying to find the balance point between awareness and the annoyance of being in plain sight: yesterday he came out strongly in the open.

Gold in the 100 freestyle at the Abu Dhabi World Championships in short course, yet another unreleased title that comes to Italy in this incredible year. Magnini has won twice in the 50-meter pool, certainly more noble, but not even in the period of his splendor did he take this title.

Now Miressi fills the box and occupies it all, finally able to manage his size and his ambitions, grown up to his height. He wins with the Italian primacy already corrected in the semifinal and then lowered by another cent to 45”57, he wins and then plunges back into the mixed 4×100 from which he comes out with another gold, the third of the expedition started with success (another first vote) of the 4×50.

And there is also silver in the 4×100. Miressi started 2021 with one face and ends it with another. In the endless hours spent training in the Turin swimming pool he has disposed of an Olympic disappointment that has built up over time.

At the Games he felt he had perfected his gestures, exalted his power, he was ready, for the job, for the 23 years that allow him the experience and energy, for the desire, but something jammed. It didn’t go badly, silver and bronze in the relay, but it didn’t go as he wanted and that frustration became a daily confrontation. He challenged it, demolished it, you can see it in the timing, in the stroke and in the looks. He doesn’t try to escape, he can’t while the Italian anthem is playing and it doesn’t make sense in a national team that is making continuous progress, in an ultra-competitive group. The bettas, the boys of the team competitions, are thus defined in the hashtag that accompanies their results, fighting fish and is also the portrait of Miressi.

“I have to recover for a moment because I’m pretty hyperactive now”, out of the water, between one race and another, he shakes off his emotions, but in the end, for the first time, he feels them and reveals them without hesitation: ” I am like that, then I melt. I need time. In recent years, many things have changed, I am different and so are those around me, this is an exceptional group ». He likes to be there in the middle, the name of a generation trained on podiums, but at this point he has understood that he no longer needs to blend in with the others.

In blue swimming there is no lack of leaders, but he was missing, indeed something of him, who has been grinding results for a long time but then, suddenly he seems to lower his head just as much as it is most evident and it is complicated not to soar if you are 2 meters and 2 meters tall centimeters. The decompensation caused little dizziness, he missed some solos and the stopwatch to remember arrived when there are not too many people to watch. Before this torpedo competition, from Betta fish, colored and protagonist and gold in the 100 at the World Championships. The tank is still short, but this spring it gets bigger and he has no intention of hiding anymore. –

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