There are less than 200 days left until the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but Beretta and Jessica Rossi are already shining a light on Los Angeles 2028: the Gardone company and the 32-year-old athlete from the State Police have renewed their relationship for another 5 years. “Beretta, my home”.
Beretta and Jessica Rossi together until at least 2029. The signature of the five-year agreement was placed inside the collection of Fabbrica d'Armi Beretta in Gardone Val Trompia by the champion and by Carlo Ferlito, CEO and general manager of the house in Tre Arrows. Given the magnitude of the moment, the celebration also saw the presence of Carlo Gussalli Beretta, sixteenth generation of the oldest manufacturing company in the world. Acting in the present while always looking to the future: this is the common vision of Beretta and the trap champion, already a gold medalist at the London Olympics.
“If I am here today – comments Jessica beaming – it is because Beretta has always been close to me, giving me what I needed. I'm not just talking in terms of material support, but also and especially human support. I have gone through difficult moments in my competitive career; and it is precisely in those moments that I felt so close to the company. And it is precisely in those moments when I thought: I want to continue following my path with Beretta. Today is the symbolic and official moment of this choice of mine and I am here after a very positive year, in which I think I can say that I have put all the things that limited me behind me. So it's easy to understand how happy she is on this day."
“We are happy to be able to walk together again because, as a company, which is a big family, we have always believed in Jessica both for her crystalline qualities as an athlete, but also and above all for the person she is”. Thus Carlo Ferlito, CEO and general manager of Beretta. He adds: “We will continue to support it with the utmost commitment to ensuring that the strongest shooters take up the best rifles on the platform. And it is the history we have traced that speaks for us: from the 1956 Melbourne Games to the latest Tokyo Games we have reaped successes by dedicating ourselves daily to creating and developing clothing, accessories and services that can provide each shooter with that "marginal gain" that helps achieve victory. Now it's time to write a new page."
And on the stage of the Chateauroux Shooting Centre, a pleasant place in the heart of France about 2 hours south of Paris, Jessica will be called to show her worth on Wednesday 31 July. And she too arrives with a page to write: "I am dedicating myself very carefully and rigorously to the care of my body, but in a parallel way to the training of my mind thanks to yoga and meditation. Skeet shooting does not require physical prowess as in other Olympic disciplines, but it is the mind that makes the difference. To center you must be centered. That is, feel good about yourself. In recent years I have worked to become, day after day, the best version of me. And this made the difference during the beautiful competitive season that recently ended."