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Tomorrow morning the Olympic descent: the reigning champion entrusts her thoughts to social networks a few hours after a sensational attempt. "I felt the affection of an entire nation, I am aware that I have given everything to play for it".
Monday 14 February 2022 5 minutes reading time
A special eve, as it could not be otherwise when in a few hours you will play the most important match of an entire four-year period. You are also the reigning Olympic champion, you come running after the injury in Cortina and everyone is waiting only for you, the downhill skier who has dominated this season as well.
Sofia Goggia is ready and this is demonstrated by her message, written in the Chinese evening, which she dedicates to fans to convey her energy towards the Yanqing descent which on Tuesday morning, at 4.00 in Italy, will award the medals. "The parterre in Cortina that falls silent in a few seconds - writes Sofia remembering that January 23 of the injury to her left knee, remedied by falling in the super-g on the Olympia delle Tofane - And it is the embrace with my friends of all time which I hugged and which wrapped me in the hotel reception, before flying to Milan. It is their words that invite me to stand firm. And it is the deep suffering that I feel in my desperate heart. They are the interminable tears in a helicopter and it is the result of the resonances that I don't want to hear, but that will touch me to know.
He is a wounded Crusader who needs time, and time is what I don't have. It is yet another scream that would be natural to hurl against the sky, and it is instead the strength, the light that you know how to find inside you and that will not make you lose your temper. It's February 1st, your team's departure day for the Olympics, and it's tears in the gym, limping, at the thought of not being at the airport with them too. They are the messages of affection of a nation and it is the love that follows. It is the trust of those who have been close to me and it is a damned race against time. It is the biological healing time that you do not have, and it is the biology of belief that you rely on.
It is the incredible progress, and it is the Games that begin, when you have not yet touched the Snow. These are the first uncertain corners and it is the countdown of the days to the descent in which you have decided to participate. “This is the greatest proof that life has ever brought me”, I whisper through tears as I leave the physio. The other day, when I entered the house to do the reconnaissance of the first test, I looked at those five circles and the writing of Beijing2022: I had an explosion of happiness in my heart.
It is my smile at the finish line after these first two training sessions on the track, and it is the awareness of being exactly where I would like to be! Because the Olympics are the place where every athlete would like to be ... that dream of mine in my heart since childhood! Tomorrow I will leave with number 13. With my heart flying and contentment stamped on my face. Aware of having given everything. Because I should have been there regardless, but then, with that fall, everything seemed to go up in smoke. Instead ... THERE ARE!
Thanks to all of you for the 'affection'.
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