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Mathiou and the story of a junior slalom world title that was missing from Italy for 28 years. Now Lenzerheide for the 19 year old from Valle d'Aosta who wants to amaze everyone.
Wednesday 10 March 2021 4 minutes reading time
The last was Morena Gallizio in the home world championship, in Montecampione in 1993, and after the beauty of 28 years the blue slalom, which has long been looking for those talents who can bring it back there, just think that since 2007 it has not been won a World Cup race (the last was Chiara Costazza in Lienz).
Of course, there are Peterlini, Rossetti and Della Mea above all, now on a permanent basis at the World Cup level, but now Sophie Mathiou is a candidate in all respects to soon reach those levels; today the 19-year-old from Valle d'Aosta gifted herself the junior world title by signing a real feat in the fog of Bansko, with the comeback in a perfect second heat to climb to the top of the world, beating rivals that we see permanently in the maximum circuit.
And thanks to Gressan's great talent, the World Cup will become a reality on March 20, on the occasion of the slalom of the finals in Lenzerheide, with the pass guaranteed by today's result; the standard bearer of the Carabinieri Sports Center comes from a family that has given its contribution to the cause of Italian skiing, just think that her aunt is Sonia Viérin, specialist in the giant at the turn of the new millennium, her grandmother instead Roselda Joux, protagonist of the circuit at the late 1960s.
Sophie had stood out at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, where she was fifth in combined and ninth in giant. This season the first points in the European Cup arrived, with the peak of 13th place in the slalom of Zell am See, then the presence in Bansko where he collected a tenth place in giant and a thirteenth in super-g, before literally explode in the race between the tight posts this morning. "The numbers from 1 to 5 had good visibility in the first heat - tells Physi.org Mathiou after putting the gold medal around my neck - I had the number 15 and I found a thick fog, so much so that I didn't I couldn't even see myself again at the video that the coaches had shot.
But today I really wanted a medal, because I felt it was my day. This success has arrived, I'm going to the World Cup finals and it seems like a dream to me ”.
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