Cosenza native Giovanni Tocci flies to Paris: “It will be the Olympics of awareness”

John

By John

Giovanni Tocci’s third Olympics “will be the one with a capital O”. This is how the champion from Arcavacata di Rende defines Paris 2024. The Italian diver returns to compete under the five rings after his debut in Rio 2016 and the repeat in Tokyo 2020. “The one in Paris will be the Olympics of awareness – he says – the one in which I am putting all of myself, together with the teachings of past experiences”. Today the departure for Paris, for the adventure in which the dream can become reality. In which the efforts and sacrifices of a lifetime can materialize in a medal, whatever the color. An immense work, that of preparation, started years ago: “In my mind there is only the race on August 2 and the one on day 6”. The diver from Cosenza will start with the synchronized race from the three-meter springboard, with Lorenzo Marsaglia, which is the specialty on which the two athletes, as well as Italtuffi, are focusing in a particular way.