Tag: Federica Pellegrini
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Federica Pellegrini to take a year off after the Olympics
Read La Gazzetta dello Sport “I’m stopping next year. If I want to carry on swimming long into the future, I need to take a year’s sabbatical, a year completely dedicated to me, when I’ll put myself first. The World Championships take place next year, and I’ll just focus on trying to make it into…
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Federica Pellegrini – a presentation
A slideboom presentation, courtesy of ToniaC. FEDERICA PELLEGRINI View more presentations or Upload your own.
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Magnini swears off sex during Games
Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun. “There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.
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Federica Pellegrini and Luca Marin
From days gone by, a Wikimedia Commons photo courtesy of br1dotcom, CC BY 2.0
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CC photo #151: Federica Pellegrini at Debrecen 2012
Italy’s Federica Pellegrini ready for the women’s 200 freestyle prelims at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She won that event but suffered a few days later in the 400 freestyle, not advancing to finals, resulting in a series of medical test to make sure that everything is all right. In other news, she says…
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Hungary clear favorites at home Europeans
So I got my hands on a preliminary entry list for tomorrow’s technical meeting, here in Debrecen, and had time to type in the medal contenders while waiting for my team tonight. Subject to change at the technical meeting, the host country of Hungary seems like clear medal favorites, with the Germans in second and…
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Record number of swimmers at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
LEN announces today that the European Swimming Championships in Debrecen have a record entry of 570 swimmers from 44 of the 51 member federations, one federation up from the Budapest 2010 Europeans, then including diving, synchronized swimming and open water swimming. Some federations take the opportunity at the Europeans for another Olympic qualification, while others…
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Filippo Magnini and Federica Pellegrini pose naked in Vanity Fair
The two swimming champions for the first time naked together in Vanity Fair. Him: ‘The woman of my life’. Her: ‘If he asked me to marry me right now, I would say yes’. See slideshow here on vanityfair.it (if you can handle it)
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Pellegrini: “I wouldn’t get an abortion to go to the Olympics”
Out of AGI.it: The comment was made by Federica Pellegrini in an interview to Vanity Fair, which dedicates the cover of the issue due to be released tomorrow to the Italian swimming champion and her fiance’ Filippo Magnini, who are openly shown together for the first time. “I take the necessary precautions but, should it occur,…