a speech was called for!
Thank you to the "docs"... Davide (between Massi & Fede) and Beppe (on the right)
Hooray!
Barbara Melica and the very special gift she gave to the guys... on these pages soon!
Could we not make a video??
As the video is in Italian, here's a short recap...
0.40> Barbara Melica tells Massi that it is her birthday, and Massi & Fede congratulate her
0.50>Silvia tells Massi that she's making a video (not taking a photo as they were posing) to which Massi answers "ohh a video! I'd been standing still for half an hour!"
0.59> Massi's speech.
I wanted to start by telling you the story of the Tarantella (it's a joke because he's been kind of over-enthusiastic about this in all the press conferences)... segue into general laughter
I want to thank all of you who are here tonight, this has been an very important medal for us, and I want to tell you that you are all part of it, because you have always loved us very much and are so close to us, you have always supported and "endured" us.
I want to thank in a special way our coaches, Natalia, Pasquale and Paola, and Gennady, Gennady who's at home. I want to thank Barbara and Maurizio who helped us as well this year, there are so many people to thank! A very special thank you goes to the "health department" (laughter) because this was such a complicated season, especially for them who had to handle all this.
This was a very complicated World Championships, specially for Fede, and I want to thank her because she really was the strenght behind this medal.
(then comes Linichuck's speech, but that's in English!)
With this, we can wrap up this long day... next episode: memories of sunday afternoon!
