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Karin’s joy to live

There are sports events, matches, changing the perception of athletes by those who follow the sport as a spectator enthusiast. It’s ‘ the case of the match played yesterday between two tennis players Maria Sharapova and the Italian Karin Knapp, a game lasting 3.30 hours to + 40 degrees and that Knapp has only lost at the third set by two points: 10-8.  A game played by Knapp until the last shot with the extreme determination. They left a positive mark and demonstrate the level of competitiveness reached by this girl, 40 in the world ranking. Mark not only for how she played yesterday, but because only three years she resumed playing after a break of two years due to heart problems, with two heart surgeries and two on the right knee. It would have been easier to stop playing tennis, but Karin is back and she did well.

These are the stories that are good for sport world, reminding us of how sport can also be a way to redeem an athlete from serious health problems . It’s a story similar to that of Jack Sintini, setter of the volleyball Italian champions team. The same for Alex Zanardi the driver  become the strongest handbiker in the world. Too often we forget to remember these positive lives and we focus only the problems generated by doping. These are the examples that young male and female athletes must bring in their mind and soul, those of who was stronger than the incidents occurred. The parent who wrote to me the other day, how to motivate his son while others use doping  has to suggest the boy to appreciate these lives, understanding what they can teach.  In this way we enrich our motivation with ideas and beliefs supporting us in times of difficulty we will encounter. The same is true for young people who get angry every time  they make mistakes: try to think of how many errors they had to accept these ,champions when they resumed activity after illness or accident, if they had lost time to complain would never have got to where they are now.