I am completely ashamed that I got Tullio kicked off the
Italian team

As you are no doubt aware I published an article a few days ago
that discussed the Italian team selection process. I did this after Tullio
Gervasoni had been selected to be on the Italian national team by Falvio
Tebaldi. The article came out of discussions that I had with Tullio at the
Italian National Championships (as he states in his subsequent article) and was
only published after he had been chosen for the team.

I had already written the
article over a number of days and was eager to publish the article and felt that
since he was already on the team that he could not be pulled off it. I was very
wrong about that. He could indeed be pulled off the team, and he was immediately
pulled off the team right after the article was published.

I am so ashamed that my article has wrecked Tullio's chance of being on the
team. I have begged Flavio to reconsider, all to no avail at this point. He is
set to appoint another Italian pilot to the eighth slot. I continue to beg
Flavio not to do this. I feel completely responsible for screwing Tullio over in
my eagerness to publish an article.

I reframe from publishing many stories that I am told in confidence and not
allowed to publish, so I know a lot more than I can share.

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