We meet Marini halfway through a challenging year, seven months after his shoulder surgery and still five months away from his dream of a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In a very decoubertine way, Tommaso Marini explains how he is experiencing this time: "An athlete must be proud of the sacrifices he makes beyond the results. I'm tired of hearing the usual athletes saying that they train ten hours a day, we all do, even those who finish last, the difference is the way you deal with what you do." The Gruppo sportivo Fiamme Oro Olympian insists on the importance and his own role as an athlete as he looks out at the empty theater stage where nss filmed this episode of More Than. The reigning world champion in the men's foil mainly traces the difference between "talent" and "worker"," between these two different personalities and paths that must find a way to unite in the same goal. On the one hand, the rigid and proud strategist D'Hubert, on the other, the action, instinct and loneliness of Feraud. "I recognize myself in talent, but it's not better or worse. The talented athlete is the one who, in a way, creates the most problems, because he is usually more undisciplined or uses talent to compensate for mistakes that are more obvious to the worker. The thought pattern of us talented athletes is more complicated."

In a sport where the psychological component is so important to the final outcome of the competition, Tommaso Marini tells how he has been able to define his role as an athlete not only through victories, but also through a broad perspective on fencing: "There are my colleagues who live for sport, but I'm not like that. I've learned that the sport has to be behind me, not me behind it. That's the best way for me to perform and I try to focus on other aspects of my life." He then continues: "I used to have the idea that Tommaso had to be a serious person in fencing, the perfect athlete, while I can be more outgoing outside. Now I try to find a balance between these two souls, both during the competition and outside, and it works. Tommaso Athlete and Tommaso human are one and the same person. This has helped me because I used to think I was more confident inside the platform, but in recent years I've realized that I'm more confident outside. The results have helped me find balance and strength, but I think in sport you need a method that works in every moment of your life."

Because of these interests - cinema, art and fashion - Tommaso Marini has always had a connection to Milan, a city to which he came with his parents during fashion weeks and to which he often returns. "I love Milan very much, I've been going there since I was a child because my parents always took me. I have come to love the city and I could imagine living there, maybe in the future it will become my city" Marini seems to consider many aspects of her life, from the possibility of moving to Milan to her sporting successes. On the other hand, the geography of fencing has changed a lot in recent years, as have the opponents and the unpredictability of the sport: "There are at least five other states at our level that didn't exist before. I was born in a time when there were a lot of other strong athletes, so I'm used to it, but compared to the past, the foil medal is no longer a sure thing. The top 25 in the world are all very strong and you can easily lose to them, so the "ass" factor is also crucial, especially in combat sports. There are so many things that happen by surprise, unpredictability is something we have to train for, but it remains an unknown until the time of the competition."