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Thomas Ceccon, “Italian Phelps” Rebel and mustache champion

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Thomas Ceccon, “Italian Phelps” Rebel and mustache champion

She trains in Verona in the same swimming pool as Federica Pellegrini She won the 100 backstroke by setting the world record: 51 “60

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The only swimmer who keeps a mustache, is not completely shaved and would like to keep his hair long is Italian. His name is Thomas Ceccon, the rebel of the pool, and he always wants to make his way. He seems to be right: he won the 100 backstroke with the world record, 51 ”60.

Ceccon hears himself said to be «the Italian Phelps» since he was a child, he is the only blue in the pool that mixes the specialties: backstroke, dolphin, freestyle and has always done so. And he promises, since he’s been in the youth academy. He impresses and shocks. Luca Sacchi, former swimmer, voice of Rai, someone who has seen him pass by some champions, confesses that he was amazed when he saw him for the first time: «they told me about him and yet I couldn’t believe it. No one else has had this effect on me. ” And he, Thomas, he knows, is perfectly aware of having that effect, so for a while, for a few years, he has been bullied by it. Maybe a little too much. Now he knows how to dose that mixture of unspeakable talent and naive arrogance, now that he puts himself behind the Americans Murphy, Olympic champion who held the previous record (51 ”85) and Armstrong. Now that to avoid him it could be even vaguely belittled his victory in the absence of the Russians, aces of the sector, he decides to snatch even the chronometers of those who are not there. Growing up in Schio, he trains in Verona, in Federica Pellegrini’s swimming pool, a place he calls her records, he sees her every day, but he has never trained with her. He lives with his mother Gioia and works with Alberto Burlina, the technician who ages “ten years every Thomas season” and who defended him, acted as a shield, calmed him, never distorted him and insisted on mixing all the styles even if everyone around asked him to choose: bet on a competition. No. Burlina let him indulge himself: «And it went wrong a lot of times, he gets mad, he has the character of him but he is genius and recklessness. Some behaviors are misinterpreted and his braggart character has helped him to keep anxiety away ». Fourth in Tokyo in the 100 backstrokes crushed in Budapest and silver with the 4×100, bronze with the mixed that here promises wonders.

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Ceccon takes home the 50,000 euros of the bonus for the time, plus the victory prizes, the 35,000 euros of the federation and even an NFT, his passion. Digital images quoted in cryptocurrency and personalized by a unique code: “I am in that world and it intrigues me a lot, I make investments in it”. At 21 Ceccon traffics in blockchain, not exactly the kind of character we are used to.

But he is Ceccon, one who kneels in front of the block while all the others beat their chest before the start. One who says “once I didn’t notice what I was doing, I didn’t listen, I arrived late, I was impatient, now I know where I am”. On top of the world. With a mustache. –

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