Tania Cagnotto dives into her second life and restarts as a mental coach

“I always say that diving is ninety percent a matter of the mind”. It is written in italics on the back cover of a celestial book, and it is a great truth: one prepares for months and months, years, every day , from morning to night, in the gym and in the pool, dry land and in the tub, he repeats the same five or six dives in his program thousands of times, but then it is during the competition that everything is decided. take the trampoline badly, open the vertical too late, get distracted by a spectator’s cough, and the dive is wrong, the competition compromised. It has happened to many and it will happen again. Tania Cagnotto, the strongest Italian and European diver in the history, winner of two Olympic medals, ten world and twenty-nine European medals, she knows it well. That phrase is hers. The book with the celestial background is her 2012 autobiography, Che dive, life!, published by Lìmina and written with Stefano Angry.