Agon (2025) Movie Script
1
Just think about yourself
when you get on the strip, okay?
Don't get distracted
by some obnoxious guy
or some girl trying to pull a fast one.
Don't let that stuff get to you.
Otherwise, it starts to drain your energy,
and you need all your energy
just to stay focused, got it?
Come on. Legs!
Come on. One, two.
Again. One, two.
Good, nice rhythm. Switch!
Legs, then work your arms.
Work your legs, then your arms.
Try to stay coordinated.
Go. Yeah. Go.
Good job, great.
Great. Hold on.
Come on, we're almost done,
then we'll go get some water.
Good job.
Take a break.
Go drink some water.
Come on, work on the transition.
Move your knee outside,
hold her down, pin her. Extend your leg.
Hold her down, five more seconds.
Hold her. Try to get away.
Hold her.
Three, two, one. Stop.
Is your knee bothering you?
Is it?
When you twist it?
No?
Maybe it's the grappling
that's giving you trouble.
Today we'll start
with some movement again.
Just a few degrees.
We have to try to bend it
as far as possible.
Good job.
Just a little more.
That's it, great.
Okay.
Keep it there.
Good, that's it.
Good job. Great.
We have to bend this knee though, okay?
Come on, together.
Hold it.
We'll start with a walk.
As naturally as you can.
Try to extend your leg
and bend it as much as you can.
If it hurts, that's normal.
We're in no hurry.
But try to extend it and bend it.
Good job, relax.
Resist the pull of the ring.
Good, again, down.
And release, slowly.
Go down. Touch and again.
Stand up.
Go down slowly.
And again, stand up.
Go down slowly.
Go.
Remember, the eyes
are the brain's video camera.
The optic nerve
is what interacts with the brain.
Four, two, seven, eight.
The Korean athlete just needs
to tie to get to the final.
Before London,
the timers didn't have decimals.
So, they don't know how much time is left,
but it's less than a second.
Again.
See, they set the timer
back to one second.
I was there.
They let them get
three touches in one second.
That's practically impossible.
They panicked.
The referee should've put them
on guard at the right distance.
They would've landed one touch at most.
Look how close they are.
Then the timekeeper wasn't in sync
with the referee giving them
the "ready, fence!"
They totally panicked.
See, the Korean coach
immediately appealed it.
Poor thing, she sat
there crying for 70 minutes.
But then they handed
the victory to Heidemann anyway.
They had to escort the Korean athlete out
because she didn't want to leave.
Then she even lost the third-place match,
because by that time,
she was totally out of it, drained.
The referee didn't work for years.
Neither did the director.
He just dropped off the map.
Biceps, four point eight.
Raise your arm.
Suprailiac, seven point eight.
Medial,
fourteen point two.
Abdominal, twelve.
Thigh,
twenty-three.
Subscapular,
nine.
Well?
Who sent it to you?
Marco forwarded it to me.
How did he find it?
Want me to ask him?
Ask him if he can make it disappear.
No.
"No," you won't ask him?
When are you leaving for Ludoj?
So, are we using a reel at the final?
Or is it wireless?
Why the fuck do you care
if it's wireless or not?
Let's get there first.
You want the red mullet?
No, they're too big.
What are you afraid of,
that they won't count your touches?
I've seen it all.
At a championship some years ago,
a guy would touch the strip's edge
and then run at his opponent
when the referee was looking away.
Incredible.
Aren't you going to take a shower?
I'll tap you every 30 seconds,
so you know the time, okay?
Whenever you're ready.
Imagine you're on a course.
Stay with it, focussed.
Think about all the details
of what you're imagining,
because that's what
allows you to disconnect.
Now take a rest, do some belly breathing,
then when you're ready,
we can start over.
I WALK BACKWARDS ALONG THE SEABED
FISH ARE FLYING CARS
DUST FLOATING LIKE STARS IN SUNLIGHWELDING DREAMS
IN THE DARKNESS OF A MASK
NEUTRINOS TRAVELLING FOR CENTURIES
REVEAL HISTORY FOR A BRIEF INSTANAS I LOOK FOR THE NORTH STAR
AMID WANDERING CONSTELLATIONS
OF MICROORGANISMS
LIKE SHARP STARS
ON A COLD MISTRAL NIGHHADOPELAGIC ASTRONOMY
Of all the countries that pay
for gold, silver and bronze medals
Italy is one of the most generous.
- Since we're so well off economically.
- Right.
- Italy has no economic problems at all.
- Exactly.
The Italian Olympic Committee
pays its athletes very well.
- 180,000 euros for a gold medal,
- Yeah.
90,000 for a silver medal
and 45,000 for a bronze.
- Before taxes.
- So then you need to pay taxes on that.
Are they self-employed like us
or employees?
I don't know, from a tax standpoint.
Other countries are much more generous.
For example,
at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo,
Saudi Arabia gave
a karateka called Tareg Hamedi
a whopping 1.2...
Alice Bellandi,
born on November 20th, 1998.
Italian nationality.
ID. Identity card, perfect.
Notification time is 6:23.
Do you confirm that?
Your trainer's name?
Giorgio Cano.
- And your doctor?
- Luca Modena.
- Phone number?
- Three, one, four,
six, two, seven, seven, two, four, five.
- Email?
- Alicejudo
at tmail dot com.
Discipline, judo.
Any meds or supplements
in the past seven days?
Multivitamins,
amino acids,
omega-3
and protein.
Any transfusions in the last three months?
- No.
- No.
Do you consent to the sample being used--
- No.
- No.
- Are you ready to urinate?
- Yes.
Choose a cup.
Choose a kit, please.
- Can you confirm that it's sealed?
- Yes.
Open it.
Check that the sticker numbers
are the same
on the bottle, lid and box. Thanks.
Now pour at least 30 millilitres
into container B
and at least 60 into container A.
You can pour the rest into container B.
Save some to measure the specific weight.
Close them.
I confirm there's no leakage
and that they're properly sealed.
I confirm the specific weight
is over 1005.
One zero twelve, to be exact.
The samples will be sent
to the anti-doping lab of choice.
Sample B will be frozen
for any further analysis or re-testing.
These two forms will be sent
to the lab with the samples.
As you can see, your name
and personal information are hidden,
as well as our names and signatures.
So they're anonymous.
We keep the originals and send them
to who requested the test,
and you get to keep the first copy
along with the notification.
You have to keep them for five years.
That's easy to say. She doesn't eat.
But the weird thing is...
It's like if I put on a sweatsuit now,
I'll lose four kilos by tomorrow.
So, the night before the weigh-in,
I told her to at least eat a protein bar.
- You can't go on that way.
- Jeez.
She had stomach cramps.
Sometimes she's even got
acne all over her face.
- They all do.
- They do cycles.
- I never saw her with any acne.
- Even at 63 kilos she never had acne.
I think the Russian girls do it too.
- The Russian girls?
- Yeah.
They do if you ask me. It's not normal.
It's not normal for her
to lift 60 kilos with her obliques.
Are you kidding?
- Kaimazova, 60 kilos with her obliques.
- She trained with 60 kilos.
Sixty kilos of plates.
- Not counting the barbell.
- I couldn't even lift it.
Sixty kilos...
- Not even Enzo could.
- You'd break your back.
I mean, 60 kilos, like it's nothing.
Right and left.
A 95-kilo bench press.
Seventy kilos. That girl
got a medal at the Olympics.
She benched 95 kilos once.
Seventy kilos? How's that possible?
Come on, you gotta be kidding.
She lost, though.
She lost to that Romanian girl.
- The Romanian, the waza-ari?
- She sucks.
And she fainted.
- She fainted.
- How come?
She fainted because she was choking her.
She raised her chin
and she choked her. She fainted.
- She totally sucks.
- Then she cheered in her face.
The Romanian girl.
If they touch my collar, I'll start
tapping like a fish out of water.
Seriously.
- Ready?
- Hold it.
Let go!
Go.
Let go!
You gotta let go suddenly.
Like a spring,
you gotta let go like a spring.
Come on.
Go.
Stop!
Go.
Does it hurt?
Did you feel something?
Does it hurt?
You in pain?
Try to move it.
Who's seen it already?
It's pretty unsettling.
Why not ask Valerio to help?
This stuff has nothing
to do with the Games.
It shows you skinning wolves.
Why didn't you ever tell me?
Sure you don't want to go out to dinner?
No, I'm too scared of food poisoning.
...that dances
across the paper at incredible speed.
Faster even than the eyes can see.
Now watch in slow motion
as it turns, tilts and prints.
Solving in three, two, one.
Oh, yeah!
You can't even tell it's you.
Who are these people anyway?
Going around with smart shooters?
They pull the trigger and wait.
How much did they give you?
You would've done the same thing.
How much?
Fifty grand.
It's not like I've been doping!
Yeah, but you're next
to a pile of dead wolves.
Valerio, please, don't give me that.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I'm broke.
Either I win or I'm selling
my gold medal from Tokyo.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Just do a few guest appearances on TV.
They're dying to have you on.
Alex, as you can imagine we are forced
to terminate your sponsorship contract.
We regret this decision
but believe it aligns with our values
in wildlife conservation
and ethical hunting
as a manufacturer
of performance driven ammunitions.
An official notice will follow.
Take care, Tom
Try to keep your distance,
then lunge with your blade.
Watch out, she has a good hit.
If you're struggling
because she starts with a flche,
distance yourself
so you can see when she starts.
We all heard a noise,
a noise that made us realise
something had broken.
We immediately panicked
because the noise was very, very loud.
I felt like my kneecap
was quickly going up into my thigh.
I cried and screamed in despair,
because the pain
wasn't actually that bad,
but the pain in my heart was enormous.
Why?
Why was this happening to me?
I thought the worst things.
I imagined it was the end.
The end of everything.
- Ricciardi?
- Yes.
Hi, it's Alex Anderson with The Chronicle.
Yes, it's me. They told me you would call.
You have five minutes?
I'm trying to better understand
the safety protocol.
The press office gave me
your phone number.
Listen, there is not much to understand.
After the accident, you know,
they needed to find out
if there was any responsibility
on the failure of both athletes's gear.
Considering that both mask
and sword have failed,
they basically had to check
whether they were built up to the specs
of what we usually call Model One.
Imagine that there is one model
of this mask that has been homologated
and has been tested prior to production.
First, they need to check
if the mask that has failed has been built
and tested as it was supposed to.
The gear was puncture tested,
then was approved at weapon control.
What happens now is
that we have to understand
whether the mask was built up to
the specs or not.
The problem is that
if it was built up to the specs,
we need to open up a discussion
in order to understand
how to improve the safety standards.
The accident in this case would open
a loophole in our technical rule book.
Basically, an issue
we have never addressed before.
But what if the specs weren't respected?
Well, if so, we now go a little bit
into a complex territory.
The reality is not really a protocol,
as you know.
Sometimes not all the masks get tested
fully by the manufacturing company.
Now there will be an investigation
to establish what degree
of responsibility there is.
But there is also a chance
that we have been exploring at the moment
that the gear was actually built
to the standards
but some parts that the company received
are not what they're supposed to.
Assembly components?
The company receives the metal mesh
from a third-party supplier
who sells it as certified.
So now it's either the company
who has provided deliberately
the mesh as a counterfeit
or maybe it can be
that it's the actual material,
the actual stainless-steel plate,
was given to them fraudulently.
And what happens in this case?
All of this kind of overlaps
with some negligence from the athlete
like dropping the gear on the floor
or some corrosion due to sweat,
in theory, it shouldn't create
any malfunction or mechanical damage
if the metal is fully certified.
But if it wasn't,
it could have started to corrode.
Anyway, something feels strange.
It hurts.
You just need to warm up.
They're about to call you.
I'm telling you, it hurts.
I'll call you back right away,
I'm with someone.
Sorry.
Details are never boring.
Some people fake injuries,
and you suspend me for an investigation?
Don't be superficial.
No one is questioning that.
Yeah, but ignoring it is disrespectful.
That's not why we suspended you,
don't you get it?
Someone can be a bad shooter,
but you judge
what I do outside the competition?
If it's poaching, yes.
The Games are
about friendship, respect and peace.
Sorry, Franco,
can I call you back in ten minutes?
You could've made something up.
Are you serious?
It's a miracle
they don't arrest you for your fixations.
And you come to me
complaining about the suspension.
You think poaching is like going shopping.
And you still hope
I'll do something for you?
I don't care if you don't like it.
There's no room for violence here.
Go back home.
You're not suited for the Games.
GLOWING EMBER
WARM TO THE TOUCH
RESISTANT TO WATER
LIGHTS AND HEATS MY BATH
CICADAS ARE SINGING
SNOW WARMS UP
LE TRE RANE AWAITS ME
THE TABLECLOTH IS THE PORTAL
DINER OF DECOMPRESSION
HYPERBARIC PORTAL
I DECOMPRESS MY IMAGES
STROKING WET PAGES
LYING ON SOFT ROCKS
WAVES COVER ME
THEIR FOAM LIKE A WARM BLANKETHE LOW SUN IS THE LIGHON MY NIGHTSTAND
HADOPELAGIC ASTRONOMY
I can't take it anymore.
I hate my life.
I swear, as soon as we get back to Rome,
I'm gonna cut this fucking leg off.
Calm down, relax your leg, easy.
It's nothing, don't worry.
Please, no.
Please, no.
Just think about yourself
when you get on the strip, okay?
Don't get distracted
by some obnoxious guy
or some girl trying to pull a fast one.
Don't let that stuff get to you.
Otherwise, it starts to drain your energy,
and you need all your energy
just to stay focused, got it?
Come on. Legs!
Come on. One, two.
Again. One, two.
Good, nice rhythm. Switch!
Legs, then work your arms.
Work your legs, then your arms.
Try to stay coordinated.
Go. Yeah. Go.
Good job, great.
Great. Hold on.
Come on, we're almost done,
then we'll go get some water.
Good job.
Take a break.
Go drink some water.
Come on, work on the transition.
Move your knee outside,
hold her down, pin her. Extend your leg.
Hold her down, five more seconds.
Hold her. Try to get away.
Hold her.
Three, two, one. Stop.
Is your knee bothering you?
Is it?
When you twist it?
No?
Maybe it's the grappling
that's giving you trouble.
Today we'll start
with some movement again.
Just a few degrees.
We have to try to bend it
as far as possible.
Good job.
Just a little more.
That's it, great.
Okay.
Keep it there.
Good, that's it.
Good job. Great.
We have to bend this knee though, okay?
Come on, together.
Hold it.
We'll start with a walk.
As naturally as you can.
Try to extend your leg
and bend it as much as you can.
If it hurts, that's normal.
We're in no hurry.
But try to extend it and bend it.
Good job, relax.
Resist the pull of the ring.
Good, again, down.
And release, slowly.
Go down. Touch and again.
Stand up.
Go down slowly.
And again, stand up.
Go down slowly.
Go.
Remember, the eyes
are the brain's video camera.
The optic nerve
is what interacts with the brain.
Four, two, seven, eight.
The Korean athlete just needs
to tie to get to the final.
Before London,
the timers didn't have decimals.
So, they don't know how much time is left,
but it's less than a second.
Again.
See, they set the timer
back to one second.
I was there.
They let them get
three touches in one second.
That's practically impossible.
They panicked.
The referee should've put them
on guard at the right distance.
They would've landed one touch at most.
Look how close they are.
Then the timekeeper wasn't in sync
with the referee giving them
the "ready, fence!"
They totally panicked.
See, the Korean coach
immediately appealed it.
Poor thing, she sat
there crying for 70 minutes.
But then they handed
the victory to Heidemann anyway.
They had to escort the Korean athlete out
because she didn't want to leave.
Then she even lost the third-place match,
because by that time,
she was totally out of it, drained.
The referee didn't work for years.
Neither did the director.
He just dropped off the map.
Biceps, four point eight.
Raise your arm.
Suprailiac, seven point eight.
Medial,
fourteen point two.
Abdominal, twelve.
Thigh,
twenty-three.
Subscapular,
nine.
Well?
Who sent it to you?
Marco forwarded it to me.
How did he find it?
Want me to ask him?
Ask him if he can make it disappear.
No.
"No," you won't ask him?
When are you leaving for Ludoj?
So, are we using a reel at the final?
Or is it wireless?
Why the fuck do you care
if it's wireless or not?
Let's get there first.
You want the red mullet?
No, they're too big.
What are you afraid of,
that they won't count your touches?
I've seen it all.
At a championship some years ago,
a guy would touch the strip's edge
and then run at his opponent
when the referee was looking away.
Incredible.
Aren't you going to take a shower?
I'll tap you every 30 seconds,
so you know the time, okay?
Whenever you're ready.
Imagine you're on a course.
Stay with it, focussed.
Think about all the details
of what you're imagining,
because that's what
allows you to disconnect.
Now take a rest, do some belly breathing,
then when you're ready,
we can start over.
I WALK BACKWARDS ALONG THE SEABED
FISH ARE FLYING CARS
DUST FLOATING LIKE STARS IN SUNLIGHWELDING DREAMS
IN THE DARKNESS OF A MASK
NEUTRINOS TRAVELLING FOR CENTURIES
REVEAL HISTORY FOR A BRIEF INSTANAS I LOOK FOR THE NORTH STAR
AMID WANDERING CONSTELLATIONS
OF MICROORGANISMS
LIKE SHARP STARS
ON A COLD MISTRAL NIGHHADOPELAGIC ASTRONOMY
Of all the countries that pay
for gold, silver and bronze medals
Italy is one of the most generous.
- Since we're so well off economically.
- Right.
- Italy has no economic problems at all.
- Exactly.
The Italian Olympic Committee
pays its athletes very well.
- 180,000 euros for a gold medal,
- Yeah.
90,000 for a silver medal
and 45,000 for a bronze.
- Before taxes.
- So then you need to pay taxes on that.
Are they self-employed like us
or employees?
I don't know, from a tax standpoint.
Other countries are much more generous.
For example,
at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo,
Saudi Arabia gave
a karateka called Tareg Hamedi
a whopping 1.2...
Alice Bellandi,
born on November 20th, 1998.
Italian nationality.
ID. Identity card, perfect.
Notification time is 6:23.
Do you confirm that?
Your trainer's name?
Giorgio Cano.
- And your doctor?
- Luca Modena.
- Phone number?
- Three, one, four,
six, two, seven, seven, two, four, five.
- Email?
- Alicejudo
at tmail dot com.
Discipline, judo.
Any meds or supplements
in the past seven days?
Multivitamins,
amino acids,
omega-3
and protein.
Any transfusions in the last three months?
- No.
- No.
Do you consent to the sample being used--
- No.
- No.
- Are you ready to urinate?
- Yes.
Choose a cup.
Choose a kit, please.
- Can you confirm that it's sealed?
- Yes.
Open it.
Check that the sticker numbers
are the same
on the bottle, lid and box. Thanks.
Now pour at least 30 millilitres
into container B
and at least 60 into container A.
You can pour the rest into container B.
Save some to measure the specific weight.
Close them.
I confirm there's no leakage
and that they're properly sealed.
I confirm the specific weight
is over 1005.
One zero twelve, to be exact.
The samples will be sent
to the anti-doping lab of choice.
Sample B will be frozen
for any further analysis or re-testing.
These two forms will be sent
to the lab with the samples.
As you can see, your name
and personal information are hidden,
as well as our names and signatures.
So they're anonymous.
We keep the originals and send them
to who requested the test,
and you get to keep the first copy
along with the notification.
You have to keep them for five years.
That's easy to say. She doesn't eat.
But the weird thing is...
It's like if I put on a sweatsuit now,
I'll lose four kilos by tomorrow.
So, the night before the weigh-in,
I told her to at least eat a protein bar.
- You can't go on that way.
- Jeez.
She had stomach cramps.
Sometimes she's even got
acne all over her face.
- They all do.
- They do cycles.
- I never saw her with any acne.
- Even at 63 kilos she never had acne.
I think the Russian girls do it too.
- The Russian girls?
- Yeah.
They do if you ask me. It's not normal.
It's not normal for her
to lift 60 kilos with her obliques.
Are you kidding?
- Kaimazova, 60 kilos with her obliques.
- She trained with 60 kilos.
Sixty kilos of plates.
- Not counting the barbell.
- I couldn't even lift it.
Sixty kilos...
- Not even Enzo could.
- You'd break your back.
I mean, 60 kilos, like it's nothing.
Right and left.
A 95-kilo bench press.
Seventy kilos. That girl
got a medal at the Olympics.
She benched 95 kilos once.
Seventy kilos? How's that possible?
Come on, you gotta be kidding.
She lost, though.
She lost to that Romanian girl.
- The Romanian, the waza-ari?
- She sucks.
And she fainted.
- She fainted.
- How come?
She fainted because she was choking her.
She raised her chin
and she choked her. She fainted.
- She totally sucks.
- Then she cheered in her face.
The Romanian girl.
If they touch my collar, I'll start
tapping like a fish out of water.
Seriously.
- Ready?
- Hold it.
Let go!
Go.
Let go!
You gotta let go suddenly.
Like a spring,
you gotta let go like a spring.
Come on.
Go.
Stop!
Go.
Does it hurt?
Did you feel something?
Does it hurt?
You in pain?
Try to move it.
Who's seen it already?
It's pretty unsettling.
Why not ask Valerio to help?
This stuff has nothing
to do with the Games.
It shows you skinning wolves.
Why didn't you ever tell me?
Sure you don't want to go out to dinner?
No, I'm too scared of food poisoning.
...that dances
across the paper at incredible speed.
Faster even than the eyes can see.
Now watch in slow motion
as it turns, tilts and prints.
Solving in three, two, one.
Oh, yeah!
You can't even tell it's you.
Who are these people anyway?
Going around with smart shooters?
They pull the trigger and wait.
How much did they give you?
You would've done the same thing.
How much?
Fifty grand.
It's not like I've been doping!
Yeah, but you're next
to a pile of dead wolves.
Valerio, please, don't give me that.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I'm broke.
Either I win or I'm selling
my gold medal from Tokyo.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Just do a few guest appearances on TV.
They're dying to have you on.
Alex, as you can imagine we are forced
to terminate your sponsorship contract.
We regret this decision
but believe it aligns with our values
in wildlife conservation
and ethical hunting
as a manufacturer
of performance driven ammunitions.
An official notice will follow.
Take care, Tom
Try to keep your distance,
then lunge with your blade.
Watch out, she has a good hit.
If you're struggling
because she starts with a flche,
distance yourself
so you can see when she starts.
We all heard a noise,
a noise that made us realise
something had broken.
We immediately panicked
because the noise was very, very loud.
I felt like my kneecap
was quickly going up into my thigh.
I cried and screamed in despair,
because the pain
wasn't actually that bad,
but the pain in my heart was enormous.
Why?
Why was this happening to me?
I thought the worst things.
I imagined it was the end.
The end of everything.
- Ricciardi?
- Yes.
Hi, it's Alex Anderson with The Chronicle.
Yes, it's me. They told me you would call.
You have five minutes?
I'm trying to better understand
the safety protocol.
The press office gave me
your phone number.
Listen, there is not much to understand.
After the accident, you know,
they needed to find out
if there was any responsibility
on the failure of both athletes's gear.
Considering that both mask
and sword have failed,
they basically had to check
whether they were built up to the specs
of what we usually call Model One.
Imagine that there is one model
of this mask that has been homologated
and has been tested prior to production.
First, they need to check
if the mask that has failed has been built
and tested as it was supposed to.
The gear was puncture tested,
then was approved at weapon control.
What happens now is
that we have to understand
whether the mask was built up to
the specs or not.
The problem is that
if it was built up to the specs,
we need to open up a discussion
in order to understand
how to improve the safety standards.
The accident in this case would open
a loophole in our technical rule book.
Basically, an issue
we have never addressed before.
But what if the specs weren't respected?
Well, if so, we now go a little bit
into a complex territory.
The reality is not really a protocol,
as you know.
Sometimes not all the masks get tested
fully by the manufacturing company.
Now there will be an investigation
to establish what degree
of responsibility there is.
But there is also a chance
that we have been exploring at the moment
that the gear was actually built
to the standards
but some parts that the company received
are not what they're supposed to.
Assembly components?
The company receives the metal mesh
from a third-party supplier
who sells it as certified.
So now it's either the company
who has provided deliberately
the mesh as a counterfeit
or maybe it can be
that it's the actual material,
the actual stainless-steel plate,
was given to them fraudulently.
And what happens in this case?
All of this kind of overlaps
with some negligence from the athlete
like dropping the gear on the floor
or some corrosion due to sweat,
in theory, it shouldn't create
any malfunction or mechanical damage
if the metal is fully certified.
But if it wasn't,
it could have started to corrode.
Anyway, something feels strange.
It hurts.
You just need to warm up.
They're about to call you.
I'm telling you, it hurts.
I'll call you back right away,
I'm with someone.
Sorry.
Details are never boring.
Some people fake injuries,
and you suspend me for an investigation?
Don't be superficial.
No one is questioning that.
Yeah, but ignoring it is disrespectful.
That's not why we suspended you,
don't you get it?
Someone can be a bad shooter,
but you judge
what I do outside the competition?
If it's poaching, yes.
The Games are
about friendship, respect and peace.
Sorry, Franco,
can I call you back in ten minutes?
You could've made something up.
Are you serious?
It's a miracle
they don't arrest you for your fixations.
And you come to me
complaining about the suspension.
You think poaching is like going shopping.
And you still hope
I'll do something for you?
I don't care if you don't like it.
There's no room for violence here.
Go back home.
You're not suited for the Games.
GLOWING EMBER
WARM TO THE TOUCH
RESISTANT TO WATER
LIGHTS AND HEATS MY BATH
CICADAS ARE SINGING
SNOW WARMS UP
LE TRE RANE AWAITS ME
THE TABLECLOTH IS THE PORTAL
DINER OF DECOMPRESSION
HYPERBARIC PORTAL
I DECOMPRESS MY IMAGES
STROKING WET PAGES
LYING ON SOFT ROCKS
WAVES COVER ME
THEIR FOAM LIKE A WARM BLANKETHE LOW SUN IS THE LIGHON MY NIGHTSTAND
HADOPELAGIC ASTRONOMY
I can't take it anymore.
I hate my life.
I swear, as soon as we get back to Rome,
I'm gonna cut this fucking leg off.
Calm down, relax your leg, easy.
It's nothing, don't worry.
Please, no.
Please, no.