“Ai posti di blocco,” people say around here in Rome, where chaos and wonder coexist without ever, really, separating. “On your marks,” chime the cool megaphones of a stadium born for heat, the Olimpico. In the Eternal City, idiosyncrasies take on connotations of forced, or perhaps intended, coexistence. They paint scenes and moments that manage to be both sublime and dramatic at the same time, serving as amplifiers for the sensory patterns of the European Athletics Championships.

Thanks to KARHU, official technical supplier of the event, we spent a few days in the capital of Italy at that momentary Eden of European athletics. Our cameras captured that multisensory whirlwind of languages and movements united by a single emotional continuum: Athletics. Check out our gallery.