Novella Calligaris presents the autobiography 'Pulce - My life among the waves'

A life lived in one breath.

The first Italian swimmer to win Olympic medals - with three podiums at the 1972 Munich Games and a record that remained unbeaten for over thirty years −, world champion and winner of over seventy Italian titles, Novella Calligaris tells her story in the book "Pulce - My life in the waves". An autobiography, that of the champion, which retraces not only her sporting parable but above all her human one, telling the story of a girl, who later became a woman, who lived life with the same energy with which she swam. And in which "I have no regrets, I have always done what I wanted, for better or for worse", he says at the presentation of his book in Rome.

"Nothing was given to me except talent in a sport, a family behind me and many friends to share everything with." A life between ups and downs, joys and sufferings - with the passing of her brother, remembered with emotion on stage - but always with the desire to fly high because "when you hit rock bottom you have to give yourself the push to get back up and get back to the surface. I'm satisfied, it's not always understood but this is part of life. I gave my all in what I did, I'm at peace", concludes Calligaris.