Behind the triumph of Sofia Goggia in Sankt Moritz there is the first maestro Nicola: "Special atmosphere thanks to him"

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The Bergamo champion has revealed some backstage by returning to the super-g on Saturday. Between Courchevel and Val d''IsÃ¨re ... mind clear.

Monday 16 December 2019 5 minutes reading time

A little secret behind the first seasonal victory, arrived after a very difficult weekend in Lake Louise. Sofia Goggia, in her usual early-week report on the Red Bull website, revealed how the 72-second race in the triumphal super-g last Saturday at Sankt Moritz was only part of the work needed to emerge, at least according to the spirit that characterizes the downhill Olympics. In his "Being Sofia", here are some very interesting passages, linked in particular to the visit to the Engadine of his first teacher Nicola: "In some cup stages there is a Protestant priest, Father Jorg, who celebrates a mass before the competitions for us and, on this occasion, he told us to always bring joy within himself, regardless of the result - explains the 27-year-old from Bergamo - Words that gave me great serenity, like when I go to my dear Don Fabio in the Duomo in Bergamo. Saturday I woke up happy, also because I knew that Nicola, my first ski instructor, would come to see me and he trained me for 10 years when I was little. He is a person I care a lot about: I met him casually at the bottom of the chairlift and asked him to take a warm-up tour with me, there was also Mamo, my neighbor, and Diego, who he trained with Nicola and me and is now a ski instructor in Sankt Moritz. There was a particular energy in that meeting and I remembered the moments spent together between the tracks and the narrow streets of Foppolo, those unforgettable Sundays at my first ski club, the Clan2 ". On the podium other thousand emotions: "After the beginning of the Hymn of Mameli I saw Nicola there, in the crowd, and at that moment I could barely hold back the tears. In front of me I had the whole journey done together, the sweat, the effort, the sacrifices, the snowplough and the first curves together, all enclosed in a simple and magical look of understanding â€. Then it was time for a parallel, a specialty that Goggia has prepared and how: "I trained a lot to get ready for my official debut in this discipline - Sofia confirmed - I was eliminated for two cents (in the clash of the 16th finals with Duerr , ed), but I understood a lot of things and the fact of having an opponent in front of me stimulated me a lot. A teaching that is true in an absolute sense, not only for this type of competition ". Now Courchevel with the giant on Tuesday and the races of Val d''IsÃ¨re (Saturday descent, Sunday combined): â€œI was there before, or after the races at Lake Louise, and I'm there now. As Nicola wrote to me Saturday night: humble, focused and attentive to every detail ".

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