Francesco was not the favourite, but the 3,000,000 steeplechase is a strange race, different from all the others. Every overcoming of the high obstacle, every lunge in the river, the tub with water, exhausts the legs and the risk of falling is always lurking. Panetta no, it never fell: never. One after the other he overtook his opponents and, in an entire Olympic stadium standing, he won.
For me it was a sort of personal revenge: I felt not up to par with my classmates, the “cool” ones who returned tanned from their holidays in Greece. They were always winning, I like that athlete with my same name, who trained hard studying from morning to night, but the results did not seem to come. Fortunately, time is a gentleman and has been able to give me, as well as Francesco, unexpected and excit
