“Fly, butterflies” is an expression of sure virality, which takes up the nickname with which gymnasts have been called for a few decades, but Alessia Maurelli, the captain, declared that she preferred “warriors”, a less peaceful term that they themselves have used as an Olympic hashtag, demonstrating full awareness of how many nuances femininity can have. As if to say: we don’t need to mellow. Theirs is the victory of tenacity, rigor and light, a victory full of messages to decode. The first is: to shine you must have sweated. The second: the team quintuples individual energies, expands and strengthens them. Alessia Maurelli, the captain, is from Polesine and started training in Ferrara; Martina Centofanti is from Rome and the daughter of a former footballer; Agnese Duranti, from Spoleto, started at the age of nine; Martina Santandrea, nicknamed “curl”, seven; Daniela Mogurean, known as “Dana” is of Moldovan origin.
All are award-winning, reading their biographies is like going through a hundred existences, in their young, fresh faces, there is a lot of life, all the tests they have gone through have settled on their expressions, on their features like little stars. Warrior butterflies sparkle with sparkles that you can only fall in love with. Their skilful, tense and shamanic dances speak to us who were children in the Eighties with unmistakable references: back then, there was an unforgettable Japanese cartoon, Hilary. I loved the protagonist, a girl who practiced artistic gymnastics training hard and giving up a lot. The thing I liked most was the fact that he never won, he lost the most important races by succumbing to an eternal rival.
Hilary’s finish was not victorious, but it left the impression that our beloved would win in the next race: even if we didn’t see that race, it would have been really important, decisive. We would have left the burning defeat behind us, and at that point, looking back, that disappointment would have been just a training, a kind of preparation for a bright future. Ours was an indestructible but unmotivated certainty: up until that moment we spectators had been focused precisely on the lost race, however, once the spotlights were turned off, we felt with Hilary that we could roll up our sleeves without resignation, turn the page and start again with the screen off, we didn’t stop dreaming with her. In reality, our confidence was motivated, even if we could not know it: in the original comic, from which the animation series was based, after two lost races Hilary won.
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