Erika Saraceni won gold in the triple jump at the European Under-20 Championships, smashing the record for her category. In a normal country, such an achievement would dominate the front pages. Instead, she has to settle for a few short articles, ignored by the mainstream media who decide who deserves the spotlight and who should remain in the shadows.
Why? Because Erika is too Italian, too “normal,” too far removed from the dogmas of political correctness to become the icon certain journalistic circles idolize. She doesn’t bow to slogans, she doesn’t fit into pre-packaged narratives—and that alone is enough to erase her.
The spotlight, instead, shines on Kelly Doualla, gold medalist in the 100 meters: a talented athlete, but transformed into a symbol of one-sided “diversity.” Her victory, rather than being celebrated for its sporting merit, is turned into a political tool for an agenda that stifles sport.
It’s a shame for athletes like Doualla, who are exploited for ideological purposes that—implicitly—instead of celebrating the extraordinary achievements of all Italian athletes by the same standard, reduce them to flags for a cause. The real scandal is that the talent of Erika, Kelly, and Diego Nappi—another forgotten gold medalist—is not measured equally, but filtered through political expediency.
This is the hypocritical face of wokism: an inclusivity that excludes, a reverse racism that rewards or erases based on adherence to a single mindset. We saw it with Sydney Sweeney, attacked over an American Eagle ad because her classic beauty—blonde, white, straight—was branded “Nazism” by woke fanatics. Erika faces the same treatment: her gold doesn’t count because she refuses to toe the line. Merit is dead; only narratives that serve the powers that be matter.
And this is not just an Italian problem. Across the West, information is hostage to an ideology that brands anyone who dares to disagree as “racist” or “fascist.” Criticize illegal immigration? Racist. Vote for Meloni or Trump? Fascist.
In the UK, while crime spirals out of control, police raid the homes of citizens who post about uncontrolled immigration on social media, accusing them of “hate speech” or “disinformation.” We are beyond Orwell’s 1984: this is Nazi-Communism 2.0, where freedom of speech is treated as a crime.
The case of Erika Saraceni is not just a sporting injustice—it is symptomatic of the deep crisis of information in the West. The media, which should be guardians of the truth, have become lapdogs for ideological masters, deciding who to praise and who to ignore, sacrificing talent on the altar of globalist groupthink.
Traditional Italy—the one Erika embodies with her salute to “mamma and papà”—is being sidelined, deemed not “modern” enough to deserve glory. Yet Erika’s talent, like Kelly’s, needs no ideological filter to shine.
As long as the media put slogans before sacrifice, sport and truth will remain hostages of a sick system. What is needed is a cultural revolution: truly free media that tell the facts without the permission slip of political correctness, that celebrate every athlete for their merit—not their usefulness to a cause. Freedom of opinion is not negotiable; it is a sacred right, and Erika’s case is a reminder that it is time to fight to win it back.
