"My name is Livio Pomponi and more than selfies, I take strokes". This is how the protagonist of what promises to be a sporting enterprise, but not only, is presented on Instagram: "Asinara Stile Libero", that is the swimming tour of the island in 48 hours, covering more than 20 kilometers a day by strokes. Objective: to describe Sardinia as a choice of freedom.
Livio Pomponi, 35, from Alghero, Italian junior swimming champion, trained with care and thanks to the organization of the Bulls and Buffaloes cultural association, to the logistic team, to the technical staff who followed the preparation, to the support of the Municipality of Porto Torres and Asinara National Park and to private partners, will swim around the island in a maximum time of 48 hours as soon as the weather permits.
After fifteen years in Rome, Livio has returned. A support teacher in Olbia, he lives in Alghero and remains faithful to an exclamation made when he lived in the capital. "I would also swim back to Sardinia", he replied to those who asked him if he missed the island.
A challenge long not taken up, a promise not kept. So today the "Asinara Stile Libero" project, that is "a Sardinian company of sport and freedom", he explains, who with this company wants to tell and promote Sardinia, where someone like him can live according to a "Free Style", in fact , like the bet that exalts the island, its slow rhythms, its indolent routines and an environment that satisfies mind and body.
The choice fell on Asinara "because it is a state of mind, similar to the need to live in Stile Libero - replies Livio - The pandemic has aggravated the sense of isolation of the Sardinians, I would like the awareness that Sardinia is a sea of opportunities, that it is worth leaving everything and taking up the challenge, even swimming ".
So, when the wind allows it, Livio will show the island from his privileged perspective: "Everyone can be an ambassador of Sardinia in his own way, I do it by realizing the challenge started when I chose to live in Stile Libero".
(Unioneonline / vl)
