Her third Olympics and then bowing out on the biggest stage. This is the aim of the Italian veteran who has long since decided to end her career at the end of the Rio games, and then devote herself to her private life and fulfil her desire to become a mum. In 2010, she left the Italian league, settling first in Istanbul and then in Russia, driven by curiosity and the desire to find new stimuli, but she has still remained faithful to the national team, with whom she has won two European Championships. After missing the Beijing Olympics due to a heart problem diagnosed on the eve of the games, in London she received a marriage proposal from Francesco, who would later become her husband.