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Il valore di una medaglia | Daniele Garozzo | TEDxSSC


[Music]
if you have already heard these sounds
means that you have already witnessed a
assault of fencing this money
they come from the electrical appliance
this was introduced to make
life is easier for the referees
during fencing assaults like
it works on the electrical appliance
electric appliance a simple
electric circuit a circuit that does
head here at the tip of the foil
the goal of the florist and be able to
strike with this the body
of the adversary and in the case the thread the
trunk then you can hit the
trunk will light up on the scorecard one
green light or a red light in the case
which will hit an ungainly target
doing in white light then let’s say
that it is easy to understand that these lights
for us fencers and for me then
represent cross and delight and that
can bring you from exaltation to
discovered instrument that I have tried
many times one of those I remember
better was in St. Petersburg, I’m with the
hands in her hair and looks from afar
the other athletes pull I just lost
for the second time in a row at the first
round of elimination and missing
very little to this at the Olympics
while I watch the other athletes spin them
I see distant that I see stronger more
smart and even more beautiful than me and in
Meanwhile a fear is born in me
because I feel like I’m not ready for
this adventure for which he gave so much
this dream is so much criticized for this
or a team of fantastic people in which
I place all my trust in trust
but unfortunately I do not now
I place more in myself but take a step
back my tender starts a lot
young start at 7 years in a small
gym garage because it did me
feel very rocky balboa as a kid
he began more than to know the
fencing but for the desire to be with
my brother who had started this
sport a little before me
I must say, however, that I demonstrate immediately
very talented I can win a
good number of races over time though
unfortunately my gym is moving
reflect sti is a sport that makes of the
comparing the pivotal point of training
this is a very big one
and then you need virtue in that
presently there of the big trouble
gym had bought a dummy for
to advertise the social suit
at that point the idea is emptying the mannequin
of the social suit I dress him with the
divided by fencing and began to pull with
he was called billi my friend e
pulled with him really thousands of
however, they were obviously attacking billy and could
bring up to a certain point at that
some point reaches 18 when
he came to a crossroads or decide to
move to another frascati city
or being here
I said abandon my passion
practice it a little in lost time though
obviously abandoning my dream was
a very very difficult choice because
I should have left my family
my friends
my teacher my school, however, the
my dream was great the desire to
pursuing it was really so much and decided
to make this choice moved me to
frascati then begins a new life but
despite everything despite all those
sacrifices made despite the talent
despite all that passion came
there that day in St. Petersburg has
so little to the Olympics at the moment
decisive of my career and I lose for
the second time in a row in the first round
I ask myself, but I can do wrong what I do not have
done things I did not run in the way
correct
I took everything that technology
applied to the sport should they stop or the
best teacher in the world a very good one
athletic worker and in this he comes to me
instead my psychologist helps me and me
remember how the human factor is the part
more important than any victory is the
I can take his intervention
emblematic with this sentence here one
sentence a situation of nice how much
it lacks the summit
you get up and do not think about this sentence me
remember that in every second you have to
enjoy your climb and I who
I had a dream
this lady had never become for me
a nightmare I no longer enjoyed the joy
to live the path I only had
fear because the desire to win had
prevailed over the joy of continuing one
road and in doing so I realize
slowly working on the human factor
that my backpack was before all this
that with care
I had built in all these
time passes but still approaching
all olympiads
I obviously wanted to win this one
olympiads a gold that was missing in mine
specialties for twenty years and this helps
soul alternate step by exaltation
to sadness without marial reason
because with my head I was already there
I had been there for years and for me that
day 7 August arrives a day
sunny but windy and begins in this
So here I took this picture to mine
best friend after throwing up two
times before the start of the competition e
This picture comes to mind all of you
times that I was told certain
Daniel could see that
day you felt invincible I would say
but I insert and I’m not sure of
where my race will end where it will end
my day, however, one thing I know
but all this will not be in the
day of regrets during the day
of regret if someone will beat me
it will be because he will have given something in
more than I will give everything I have
and so my day begins a step
After stored up little jab assault
after assault by repeating that sentence that
I was told
how much you miss the summit, you go up and not
think about it, I see her again during the whole
day
and so slowly I stop my peak and
I arrive at the top overcoming obstacles
until then I believed
insurmountable
and on that podium on the highest step
it will be a daniele equal to that of
always
yet partly new but look how
wait for the right moment to pull it
garozzo is worth to exult well
over and over
to give the daniele garozzo the thrust
and Olympic champion what I remember
that day
this I think is the most beautiful moment
not just that line day maybe
of all my life
a path shared with my brother
in that embrace there is all this
there is a road made of sacrifices
want to get to succeed
the joy that it was even more
great of my health the people who
we have become along this long
path of the medal what can I tell you
obviously for me it’s something
very important I sacrificed so much
I traveled so much I had to leave the house
mine for this medal, however, I can
tell you also that this medal is alone
an added value spoken success but
given notoriety has crowned a path
mine is a team path and therefore
I know this medal is a lot but not
that’s all
I also know that I would do the same person
that you see here today even without her
let’s say that these days
this time I go very often with the
I look for them at that day
remember the details the words le
emotions I felt because I know that
it will be difficult to feel emotions of
new so big, however, on the other hand
I also know that independently in
any field in which I will try myself in
any occasion in any event
I will also experiment in other fields
different from the fencing I will always wear
the same commitment the same passion and
the same enthusiasm the same
abnegation
why this medal for me
it represents only a straight line has arrived
there are so many others that I want
to climb I want to continue to
reach and to my medal I have to
this awareness that will be in fact
the determination for which it will be the
engine of my every path and I conclude
with the words of yesterday de vito that says
when you realize your dreams it’s not so much
what you get is important
but the person who becomes the attempt
to realize them
thank you so much
[Music]
[Applause]
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