Twenty years of glory, success, tears, injuries, nine operations. An Olympic silver medal, a world title, four European titles, the first Italian to reach the podium at the Games in an individual event. At 34, the Orzinuovi champion now says enough is enough. She had already decided, the announcement of her retirement from competitive activity is the confirmation of what the athlete herself had suggested after the Paris Games, which she had given up due to injury.
Paris was supposed to be her last show, after silver in Tokyo, but just on the eve of the big event, a calf injury forced her to drop out: but it wasn't that lump sum that hastened the farewell, the meeting with Vanessa. Ferrari had already made its mark, she was world champion in 2006, the first Italian to have performed the Tsukahara “Silivas” twist, a double backward jump received with a double twist. A champion who took Italian artistry where no one else had succeeded: in 2006, during her first world appearance, at the age of sixteen, Vanessa won gold by writing an unprecedented page for Italian gymnastics.
