(San Giorgio su Legnano) – Yeman Crippa will run
Campaccio for the first time with the biggest athletes. He had already competed
and won several editions in the youth categories, but Wednesday the 6 he will
run finally between the world’s top runners in cross-country.
Yeman
Crippa is two times European champion Juniores, in 2014 and a few weeks ago in
France. His life changed for the best in 2003 thanks to Roberto and Luisa Crippa,
a couple from Milan.
"Roberto
and Luisa adopted me from an orphanage in Addis Abeba, where I was staying
after my parents were killed during the Ethiopian civil war” - said Yeman – I
was the first moving to Trentino with my sisters, followed then by my brothers
and cousins.
“I
remember when as a kid I used to play chasing the cows or taking long walk to
collect some water. The simplest things made us happy. Here I had everything,
I’m very grateful”. “I was enrolled in football teams but the coaches
noticed that I was fast, so I started training in Atletica Valchiese”
His
brother Neka has a very important role in this change “Nekagenet is in the
National team too, he prefers longer distances. Now we are both in the Fiamme
Oro team and we live together in Trento, near the track field”
What’s
next for Yeman? : "I have nothing to lose and lots to learn. I always try,
as I did recently at the BoClassic, closing 12th. I want to be in the elite
National team in July, at the European championship in July. I want to qualify
to the 5000mt improving my personal best, it will not be easy but at Campaccio
I want to finish in the best 10”
Then
the biggest dream: “I need to improve in the longer distances, 5.000 Mt and
10.000 Mt and work on my mental strength. Learning to have fun also running a
slower pace. The Olympics? Of course I hope to be there, but probably Tokyo2020,
it’s almost impossible in Rio”.
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