In happy news, Pellegrini also confirmed she is expecting her first baby with husband and former trainer Matteo Giunta.
The record in the 200m free had stood since ‘the Divine One’ set it at the world championships in 2009.
In the cheeky post, Pellegrini, 34, also sported words on her belly in her video saying, in English, “we’ll take it back”, referring to her future baby.
From Mirano, in the province of Venice, Pellegrini won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, she became the first woman ever to break the four-minute barrier in the 400 m freestyle with a time of 3:59.15.
She is the only swimmer − male or female − to have won eight medals in a row in the same event (200 metres freestyle) at the World Championships.
She is also the first female Olympic champion in the history of Italian swimming and the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more than one event.
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