Vanessa Ferrari wins the silver medal in the free body at Tokyo 2020 and enters the history of blue gymnastics. A dream that the champion from Orzinuovi realizes at the age of 30 and her fourth participation in the Games, after a career full of successes but also marked by injuries and disappointments. Nicknamed the ‘Orzinuovi Butterfly’ or ‘the Cannibal’, Vanessa Ferrari began practicing gymnastics at the age of 7. His first coach, Enrico Casella, is still his coach today. She competes for the Army sports group and at national level she holds 22 titles (7 in the general competition) in the absolute championships, the first of which was won in 2004. Read also She was the first Italian gymnast to have won a gold at the World Championships (Aahrus 2006), a success repeated the following year with gold at the European Championships, and right here in Tokyo it achieved the record of Olympic participation. In fact, no Italian gymnast had ever experienced four editions of the Games. Before Tokyo, however, the five-circle appointment had reserved only great disappointments: eleventh in Beijing 2008 when she was still a minor, fourth in London 2012, fourth in Rio de Janeiro 2016. The many injuries suffered in her career, including the ruptured Achilles tendon during the Montreal World Championships in 2017 never stopped her from returning to racing. Until today’s consecration in Tokyo, with the conquest of the only medal that was still missing in its rich showcase.