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The Aosta Valley is third in the middle of the race of an Olympic giant open to any solution, after the surprises of the 1st heat, even if Hector appears very solid. Bassino's tears: "I can't help but look forward, but the sorrow is enormous".
Monday 7 February 2022 4 minutes reading time
On the one hand the joy and the smile of Federica Brignone, on the other the tears of Marta Bassino. The two blue stars of the giant and a first heat of the most important race, that of the Olympic Games, completely opposite.
The Aosta Valley third, 42 cents from Sara Hector, and with a margin on her pursuers to try to win another five-circle medal, four years after PyeongChang, the Cuneo woman out after just three goals.
"The race is not over, but I have taken off a burden since the giant is the discipline where I feel the pressure most - declared Fede in Rai, after a practically perfect 1st heat, recalling that, among other things, he did not alongside him the historian skiman Mauro Sbardellotto, positive at Covid in Garmisch - Now I can say that I am there, that I can do something; the snow is very strange, but ours is an adaptive sport and I'm used to it, here you never have to brake and turn under the pole. The 5 hours between the two heats (the second is scheduled at 7.30 Italian time)? I will go to the village to relax, it will be like a day with training in the morning and in the afternoon, trying to eat something ... if I can ”.
It hurts to the heart instead to see Marta Bassino on the ground, in tears at the microphone of Simone Benzoni. Sure, Marta will do the slalom on Wednesday, then the super-g, the combined and the team event, but this was really her race, which she had been waiting for 4 years after her 5th place in Korea. “I left and found myself on the ground, it was very strange and the sorrow is enormous. I have to put it away because I can't do anything else, from tomorrow I will look forward as always ".
Elena Curtoni, the third blue at the start, remained in the thirties despite paying a 2 ”94 gap, even if all the expectations around the Valtellinese concern the super-g on Friday. "For me it was a stormy start to the Olympics - he explained in Rai, referring to what happened in recent days with his isolation - I had a lot of emotions for my first at the Games, but once I got here I was listed as a contact tight and isolated for a week, without being able to go to the village canteen or the gym.
It is not easy to manage, but now I try to live this experience knowing that today's race would have served to break the ice and dissolve the tension I felt ”.
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