Gymnastics, Anna Basta replies to Centofanti’s accusations: “Stunned by his words”

Anna Enough it doesn’t fit. The former gymnast of the national team rhythmicwhich together with Nina Corradini she had reported the psychological abuse and humiliation of Desio in the autumn, she responds to the accusations which in turn were made against her by Martina Centofanti, a current member of the Farfalle. “Anna felt resentment and envy. She complained because she had been taken out of the team before the Olympics ”, Centofanti said before the Federal Court, during the third hearing of the sporting trial against Emanuela Maccarani And Olga Tishinathe coach (former technical director, now suspended) and her collaborator in the national team.

Anna Basta: “Stunned by Centofanti words”

Statements that Basta didn’t like, who wanted to reply like this a Republic: “I learned of Martina Centofanti’s statements during the deposition on Friday 7 July in the federal trial. In particular, I read that I was causing very serious inconveniences, primarily with my teammates and then with the coaches, stating that my behavior created a lot of inconvenience. She even reports that she has never been in trouble with other girls as with me.
In short, I was the problem, not the sick system. Well, I am nothing short of appalled by what my ex-partner reported and I regret and am greatly sorry to read such disparaging sentences. The relationship with the gymnasts was friendship and with Centofanti herself a close friendship, so much so that they all showed me real and deep regret when I decided to leave (which if I had been so problematic I don’t think they would have done ). I’ve never attacked – explains Anna Basta – nor denigrated any of my former teammates, because my aim is only one: to improve this system. If out of 100 girls, even one becomes ill or is led to be ill then to me that is a failure. I want all athletes, in my pain and in that of many other people who have exposed themselves, to find a way to react and save themselves from a world that very often does not look after them in the correct way. Sport grows and forms, it does not destroy”.