Alessandro Talotti did not make it. The just forty-year-old former blue high-jumper, for months struggling with an unforgiving disease (and which he had had the courage and strength to tell), died last night in his Udine. A sensitive man, and a high-class athlete, Alessandro had recently become the father of little Elio (just six months), the result of love for the Trieste skater Silvia Stibilj, with whom he had formed a unique family unit, whose photos on social media they can only arouse tenderness, and today also emotion. To communicate it is the Fidal.
“Talotti was a great athlete – reads the Federation note -. His 2.32 shot in Glasgow, in a blue jersey, under the roof of the historic Kelvin Hall Arena, in late January 2005, was the technical peak; but of his career, characterized by two participations in the Olympic Games (with the final twelfth place in Athens 2004), and the podium touched at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, above all, in those who knew him, the feeling of lightness remains that he knew how to give both with the flight over the bar and with his smile “.
“He knew how to be profound, Alessandro, and suddenly veered, minimizing, towards the joke. Empathy, attention to others, his daily figure”, continues Fidal.
In the post competitive experience, a thousand initiatives, the commitment to sport that takes the path of management (federal councilor in the four-year period 2012-2016, recently he was also confirmed CONI delegate of Udine), up to being the shoulder of Massimo Di Giorgio in the organization , last winter, by Udin Jump Development, the high jump that finds a home, with an event entirely dedicated to it, in its land.
“Italian Athletics are crying today, reunited, for a son who completes his earthly journey. To the Talotti family – concludes the note – go the condolences and the ideal and moving embrace of federal president Stefano Mei, of the Council, and of all those who recognize themselves in the values of the tricolor movement. Hi Ale, you were really “Top”, as you used to say. We will not forget you “.
The memory of Silvia Stibilj reported by the online press from Trieste is moving: “Goodnight my Angel! Thank you for all the spectacular things we experienced together … thank you for the greatest gift you left me … thank you for simply being yourself ! I love you now and forever. ”