Maria Centracchio, winner of the bronze medal in judo at the Tokyo Olympics, made it known that she had fibromyalgia: “For a few months, persistent tiredness has taken over, a fatigue at every slightest effort, all accompanied by severe pain throughout the body” .
Maria Centracchio at the Tokyo Olympics he won a splendid bronze medal, he won it in judo. After giving Italy a heavy medal, the athlete from Molise has never returned to compete. Over a year has passed since that day. She herself explained why she didn’t come back to the mat, she talked about her absence with a long and powerful post, which she then deleted. Centracchio revealed that he has the fibromyalgiaa disease that is rarely talked about and that makes life very difficult for those affected.
Centracchio won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Games, an important medal because it was one of the first ones obtained by Italy in the best Olympics in its history. The judoka took third place in the weight category up to 63 kg. Since that day, the 28-year-old has never gone down on the adored tatami mat. The halo of mystery about the causes of her absence were explained in a very long post by the athlete born in Castel di Sangro, a post that begins like this: “A copper wire that becomes silk”.
Maria Centracchio in action at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
An elbow injury prevented her from returning, but after surgery she realized the problem was serious, and it was different: “A persistent fatigue has taken over for some months, a fatigue at every slightest effort, all accompanied by severe pain throughout the body and difficulty in carrying out even the simplest daily activities serenely. After the most varied visits, the most diverse opinions and the related uncertainties, we have come to give all this a name: fibromyalgia “.
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Maria Centracchio when she won bronze at the Olympics.
Very little is said about fibromyalgia, it is a disease that complicates the existence of all those who suffer from it. Giorgia Soleri, who discovered she has fibromyalgia, recently talked about it, as well as Centracchio who also wrote: “I have always relied on my physical prowess, on my never getting tired, on regenerating myself after each stroke. But today something has changed. From now on I will have to live with my new way of “feeling”, I will have to learn to dose my efforts and to direct my energies in the best way for my body. There is something very funny, I like to think that my body was good enough to hold on and move the “hand of pain” only after allowing me to realize my dream; that he was a master enough to let me learn how to get up after every fall, so as to make me sure that I will also be able to face this challenge as I always have: head up and chest out “.
After thanking all those who are close to her, from her boyfriend to her family passing through her friends and her sports group, Maria Centracchio read dozens and dozens of posts from fans, fans, friends who expressed their closeness to her, but shortly after. decided to remove that post that he had posted on social networks.
