ANNA BASTA

Woman and sport" category

Above humiliation and pain, Anna Basta flies today. Like butterflies. A butterfly to whom, on and off the platform, have for too long bandaged its wings. Violence after violence, abuse after abuse. One word at a time, one insult after insult, in a vortex of cruelty that causes irremediable wounds to the soul itself. That transforms the realisation of a dream into a hellish trap, in the ranks of a discipline that is anything but the sick mechanism that governs it. It takes courage not to succumb to nightmares, when nightmares when they become real; it takes courage to say enough and turn the page; it takes even more courage to denounce even more courage to denounce. Going back over an experience that still frightening. With a bare heart and a tired body. But with rediscovered optimism and with the firm will to spare those who are to come their suffering. The truth is a right. Truth is a duty. And Anna has never shirked her call never shirked it.