“He turned out to be not the person I thought. A story that didn’t leave me with happy memories.” Filippo Magnini spoke again about his relationship with Federica Pellegrini, underlining how little it matters to the Italian swimmer. In the next episode of Belve, tonight on Rai2, Francesca Fagnani asked Magnini to tell the story of her love with the former multiple Olympic champion and when asked if she considered it an important love, she answered dryly: “Until now I would have said more no than yes. Our love was a troubled love. He turned out to be not the person I thought he was. A story that didn’t leave me with good memories“.
The world swimming queen’s response was not long before she had no difficulty replying to her former colleague. In an interview with La Stampa, Pellegrini stated: “Knowing how it actually happened made me laugh. But I don’t want to add anything. It doesn’t matter“The relationship between the two caused a big stir in the world of sports and beyond, considering that both of them were at the peak of their careers, so it also attracted a lot of attention in the world of crime news.
Federica Pellegrini and Filippo Magnini got together in 2011, just after the breakup between the swimmer and Luca Marin, caused, according to Marin, by rumors of a flirtation between the two. After about two years of peace, in 2013 the first signs of crisis began to appear. So much so that, in May of the same year, Pellegrini and Magnini issued a joint statement, announcing: “It’s over between us, the feelings have faded“. At that time, rumors began to highlight a possible rapprochement between Federica Pellegrini and her athletics coach Matteo Giunta, but were immediately denied by Pellegrini himself, who had spoken about a “hoax”. At that time Giunta also intervened and recalled his family ties with Magnini – the two were cousins - and therefore he could never have a relationship with Federica. The rest is history.
