The diet of Alessia Gambardella, winner of the European Championships and student of Food Science
25 May 2017 - For 2 years she has been a student of the degree course in Food Sciences and Human Nutrition at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma but she has been skating on Italian and international rinks for 14 years. She is Alessia Gambardella, champion in the 'artistic couple' discipline at the last European Championship in Freiburg and third in the World Championship Roller Artistic Skating in Novara, also in 2016. For her, together with her very young partner, Nicola Merlani, 22, the training is intense and takes up every weekend. "We meet alternately in Rome and Bologna, the city where Nicola lives. Every evening instead we practice individually", says Alessia.
"My life is rigidly marked by the times of training and physical preparation, university study and diet", smiles the student. There is no heaviness in this statement, just a lot of determination and an eye towards the goal. For multiple purposes, indeed. Alessia has in fact decided to undertake the university course dedicated to nutrition "just to enter into the mechanisms that concern her life as a sportswoman as well as that of a 'normal' person".
In fact, he realizes that he lives an "extreme" life, that condition in which sport puts you, "forcing you every day to relate to your limit and to overcome it". In this sense, sport becomes a training ground for life: "from the organization of commitments to the ability to appreciate both what you have and what you get". And then the journey. “It's in the relationship with people, especially of different nationalities, and in moments of sharing” that 'Gamba' – as the athlete is nicknamed – finds the energy to restart.
But not only that, the champion also explains that more that characterizes artistic sport, that is the possibility of expressing oneself freely and interpreting characters. “I love this specialty because it requires me to concentrate the technical gesture performed at the highest level together with the creativity of the choreography in the competitive performance”. This seems to be the synthesis of the passion that has overwhelmed her since she was 6 years old: the satisfaction of victory - even the Coni awarded her with the bronze medal for athletic valor for the results achieved in 2015 - and the opportunity to give a 'emotion. To the public.
