Livio Pomponi made it. The 35-year-old, former professional swimmer, former Italian junior champion, completed the Asinara lap by swimming within the 48 hours set as the maximum limit for the challenge with himself.

The initiative, renamed “Asinara Stile Libero”, had the objective of enhancing “Sardinia as a choice of life and freedom”, to use his words.

The athlete from Alghero circumnavigated the Park Island in 13 hours and 49 minutes, covering a distance of 42 km in almost 90,000 strokes. A great sporting performance, although the spirit of the company went far beyond the chronometric data.

Pomponi has in fact chosen to return to the island, renouncing competition and any dream of glory to regain possession of "an everyday life marked by the rhythms of nature and by contact with the environment and the sea, understood not as a border or cause of isolation but as extension of one's own living space ".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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