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In last night's live broadcast with NEVEITALIA, the former slalomist of the Avalanche Azzurra analyzed, among the various topics, the particular situation created among the three stars of the women's national team.
Monday 25 October 2021 7 minutes reading time
An opening that is anything but happy, if we think that the only 16th final place of Sofia Goggia, the only blue in the points last Saturday on Rettenbach, represents the worst result of Italian women in a giant of the World Cup in nine years. part, except for the "zero" at the finals of Soldeu 2019, when however on the track there were only Marta Bassino, who came out in the 1st heat, and Federica Brignone who derailed in the second, exactly as happened in Soelden.
No alarm, there is time to find the tips of a very strong squad at the top, perhaps already from the giant of Killington on November 27th, if we think that in Vermont the last two winners are Bassino himself (in 2019, his first success in CdM) and Brignone (in 2018 with a great 2nd heat), while Sofia Goggia herself conquered the first podium in the cup in 2016 with a super comeback on the “Superstar”.
The situation that sees Federica Brignone training separately from Bassino and Goggia, now completely detached from the old elite group, makes us discuss, as it is normal and even more so after a negative debut. The Aosta Valley woman underlined, in the post-race Soelden, the absolute conviction of a choice to which she was brought in order to still have her brother Davide by her side. And Paolo De Chiesa also expressed himself on the topic, he who knows very well the winner of the 2019/2020 cup and the entire family context, from mother Ninna Quario to father Daniele Brignone. "I believe that the Federation has made two mistakes - explained the former blue slalomist in the live broadcast with NEVEITALIA, proposed on Sunday evening (link to the live broadcast https://neve.la/gv2021-1) with Dario Puppo - The first having granted Federica, now years ago, the possibility of having a private coach, or her brother, within the team.
If all of us of the Avalanche Azzurra had brought a technician on our own to the team, just think what would have happened. I think that the solution of a private team, supported by the FISI, can still be successful as demonstrated, remaining in Italy, the examples of Tomba, Compagnoni and Kostner, but now out of the blue, and here is the second mistake, we are found yourself imposing on Federica that she can no longer have this possibility.
Let me be clear, that's fine for her too, expenses aside since the costs are not low to manage everything: she was able to train all summer with men, from Paris in speed to the giant team, and with some foreign teams.
I believe that there can be no exceptions within a team, if you want to train with your coach you have to do it privately, but it is clear that what success can also affect the aura that has led to the exceptional results of recent years. In any case, no alarm and I think that the new pieces will be able to go in their place, because the class does not disperse and we have three champions. We will see how and when they react, I think soon ”.
De Chiesa then analyzed the giant last Saturday, in relation to the three leading Italians. “Marta was skiing well, but at the level of the Bassino of the last season finale. From the podium, as Vlhova did then in the 2nd heat, a shame about that mistake because it was strange, perhaps conditioned by the idea that on the plane he would have suffered. It got caught unbalanced on the outside, failing to reverse.
Brignone did not ski well in the 1st heat: abrupt in the action, he often detached himself from the ground. In the second, things were getting better, then he made a pretty big mistake for one of his experiences, since to hit the pole like that, you can't hold the sticks under your armpits.
Goggia? I tell you the truth, I'm a bit skeptical that it can make a big leap in giant, I intend to get to the top, despite being technically improved. Sofia does not have the skiing that is needed today to stay up there, she pulls the ski a little and in this discipline you need a continuity of movements that is difficult to achieve if you do not have it inside. For her, however, it can be a prerequisite for speed and Soelden was by no means a bad race ”.
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