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Sofia, after giving up the race on Friday, reflects on a situation that appears complicated. Faith: "I feel good feeling, it will be a tough race". Elena: "Not the ideal preparation for me, you need to adapt." With them Bassino and Marsaglia, all the declarations.
Thursday 10 February 2022 7 minutes reading time
On paper, that is the seasonal results in the World Cup (6 victories out of 7 races), it is the race of the great blue dreams and the greatest medal chances, but Italy has not had the best approach to the appointment scheduled for tomorrow, starting at 4.00 Italian time, with the Olympic super-g.
First of all the situation linked to Sofia Goggia, as already announced in the morning by the FISI forced to give up taking the start, not having had the best sensations even in today's training, or a couple of laps before returning to the Olympic village. The Bergamo area will be monitored in these hours by the federal medical staff, but there are also many doubts about the presence at the first downhill test, Saturday morning, and you literally sail on sight.
The first two athletes who will be able to choose the bib (around 10.30 Italian, at the end of the captains' meeting) for tomorrow's big challenge will be Federica Brignone and Elena Curtoni, first and second in the WCSL and best title cards for the Avalanche Rosa , even if a Marta Bassino will try that in this discipline, in the right technical context (the final part of the "Rock" does not seem ideal), can do very well, with Francesca Marsaglia completing the quartet in one season for her very difficult and also conditioned by some physical problem.
"In January I almost always did speed, here in China I have not had the opportunity until today to put on long skis, but lap after lap it went better and better - explains Federica Brignone on the eve of the FISI press office - I feel a good feeling, the grip is good, the track is homogeneous and it will be a tough race, without having had the opportunity to train and without rehearsing, as has already happened to our male colleagues.
I decided to choose a number in the middle (9 or 11 instead of the classic 7, ed), so I will have the opportunity to see some descents of those who preceded me and to get an idea of the tracing. The goal is to ski as I did during the season in this specialty, where I have always felt good ”.
Marta Bassino explains it this way: “I reset my mind, I put behind me the moment of disappointment for the giant release three days ago, I turned the page and now I'm ready to relaunch my ambitions. There are many opportunities to do well in the next few days and I want to return to Europe after making my mark. I did two days of supergiant, we'll see what happens ".
Elena Curtoni, triumphant in Cortina and competing here in Yanqing in giant to break the ice after having experienced a "partial" isolation from close contact of a positive, is betting everything on this super-g. “The Olympics have been difficult so far, especially off the track, but the motto is always here and now. I will try to focus exclusively on my skiing, without thinking about too many things that have happened to me in the last few days. It is certainly not the approaching preparation that I would have hoped for, but there is little to do and we need to adapt, I take the good part of participating in these races and I concentrate on that. Looking at the men's race, he looked like a nice supergiant, a beautiful track ”.
Francesca Marsaglia: “I'm very happy to be here, I'm sorry to take Goggia's place, I hope he can recover as soon as possible. Physically I feel better after a very difficult January from that point of view, we will play an interesting super-g, the level as usual will be very high, we try to bring out the best possible heat ".
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