Last year Giacomoan 18 -year -old Milanese boy who won his battle against leukemia, ran the Milan Marathon accompanied in the last kilometer by three staffettists who had pushed him on a Jolette, the race wheelchair on which he had completed the last fraction. A victory for this 18 year old that after a marrow transplant and months of physiotherapy he had returned to live and had been among the 441 runners who had run the Milanese marathon in favor of the Maria Letizia Verga Committee raising funds for the fight against leukemias.
A challenge in the challenge that Giacomo continues this yearindeed it relaunches because the Wizz Air Marathon Scheduled on April 6, he decided to run it from the beginning to the end for all 42 kilometers and 195 meters. “I said I should have raised the bar- he says- and so I thought of committing more to achieve a new goal. And I can say that thanks to hours and hours of physiotherapy at home and those training during the Therapy sport in the center while I was hospitalized united to tenacity and sacrifices, I am finally ready to introduce myself to the starting blocks together with many friends who will struggle with me for let me reach this important milestone ».
It won’t be easy, nothing is. To accompany Giacomo in the race will be some boys and girls of the staff who follow him in the research project Sport Therapy of the Maria Letizia Verga Committee And that they will change the whole route, pushing the race wheelchair for all four hamlets, encouraging it not to give up and remain in the race set -up for all hours of competition, despite the effort. For him, in fact, it is impossible to run alone, due to some motor difficulties followed by marrow transplantation that saved his life and allowed him to return to live a full life, made of music and sports.
The latter was fundamental for his care path: through an operating program adapted by the sports doctor in collaboration with the blood-oncologist pediatrician- carried out within the Sport Therapy project at the Maria Letizia Verga- Foundation of IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori di Monza- Giacomo managed to recover physically, psychologically and to reintegrate into his community. The commitment and her tenacity did the rest by spurring Monica, she also transplanted to marrow, to participate in the Milan Marathon, to testify together that sport has no barriers and that everyone, despite the disease, can be champions in life. “Like Giacomo and Monica, in fact, many other children and young people of the Maria Letizia Verga Committee dream, one day, to be able to realize their dreams- explain the boys of the Committee- and to help them just make their legs available but above all the heart At the next Wizz Air Milano Marathon, when the Unicredit Recent Marathon will be staged, where anyone can register by running for one of the over 90 non -profit associations participating in Milan Marathon Charity Program “.
Decide to join the family of the Maria Letizia Verga Committee It will allow, in fact, to make a great project real, that is, to build a Torre della Della Research at the Maria Letizia Verga Center, to be able to find diagnostic and therapeutic solutions that are increasingly effective for the care of these pathologies, so as to heal a every day more child. The tower, in fact, will make available to researchers from the Tettamanti Center a greater number of workshops, offices for clinical and administrative experimentation, classrooms for training, large spaces for post-DOC, doctorals and scholarships as well as a biobanca for the cryoprewing of Biological champions.
To participate and give a hand collecting funds Just visit the dedicated page where all the information is found to help, on this occasion, the Maria Letizia Verga Committee. There are two modes: if you are quite trained to travel all 42 km of the marathon, you can register as a single, while if you want to participate in the relay it is sufficient to register a team of 4 people to divide the path into hamlets between 6 and 14 km.
https://comitatomariatiziavegga.it/milanomarathon2025/