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After the world title, at the age of 27 the Swiss also took the Olympic downhill gold: she has already won everything, including the specialty cup two years ago. The difference with Goggia in the final stretch of pure sliding, but it was practically perfect. His emotions after the race.
Tuesday 15 February 2022 5 minutes reading time
She was the only woman to enter the heart of the "Pink Avalanche" that was overwhelming Yanqing.
Only Corinne Suter was able to prevent a legendary Olympic encore for Sofia Goggia, making the Bergamo rider climb to the silver medal, for just 16 cents, and consequently Nadia Delago to bronze and Elena Curtoni down from the podium, given that at the moment of her descent, there were just the three blue ones in front of all and only Kira Weidle will then be able to place herself in the top five, fourth between Nadia and Elena.
At 27, it can be said that Suter has already won everything a downhill skier could wish for: Specialty World Cup in 2020, World Gold in Cortina in 2021, Olympic title in Beijing 2022 (and previously he had won the double medal in speed at Are 2019). For Switzerland these are triumphal Games, given that today's is the fourth seal after Gut-Behrami in super-g, Feuz in descent and Odermatt in giant.
Four champions, because Corinne is also in all respects in the history of the descent. And to think that his season had started very badly, with that fall in training, at the end of September, which cost several weeks off due to various bone bruises. It was not yet her, between Lake Louise and Val d''Isère, but also up to Altenmarkt and Cortina, while always remaining in the upper districts with her impressive constancy. The first victory came in Garmisch, in the last pre-Olympic, but there was no Goggia and it is known that the comparison with the Bergamo rider can only stimulate to level up.
What he did today, competing in a practically perfect race. It is true, Sofia was 18 cents ahead of the last intermediate, but it was clear that in those final twenty seconds of pure sliding there could be overtaking, considering the characteristics of innate smoothness of the Swiss. His emotion, speaking to the Swiss media after the race, is evident. "During the descent, I didn't have a great feeling but the speed was there and it was therefore difficult to judge how much I could get - his analysis - The silver medal at the World Championships in Are 2019 (behind Ilka Stuhec, ed) gave me the certainty that it was possible to compete at these levels.
The big step, which you have to take on a mental level, I think I took it at that moment, but winning an Olympic race is the best thing that can happen. When I was a child, all I dreamed of was the Olympics; I still don't know exactly what to say, for such a success many factors must match. It's all simply and incredibly beautiful ”.
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