"The girls aren't well, the truth is this. They are suffering heavily from what happened. They also know that their job is to train and train, to arrive at the right time fully prepared, they are doing it, I'm happy. They are all really good girls, of great quality. I think we have never had a group like this. So I am very confident that they will be able to achieve their goal".
Thus the president of the Italian gymnastics federation Gherardo Tecchi, speaking of the rhythmic gymnastics national team after the storm following the complaints of some former athletes of alleged abuses and ill-treatment suffered.
Despite this "we have 20% more members than last year", underlines the FGI president.
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It means that gymnastics is still attractive and has an important future despite all that has happened.
2022 was also the year of records, we hadn't won all the medals in 50 years ", she concludes.