Not only Goggia: the blue at the attack of the Olympia delle Tofane. Brignone: "I hope for a great race"

On Saturday the descent of Cortina, with the rider from Bergamo leading a high-level team. The voices of Brignone, Bassino, Curtoni and Nadia Delago.

Friday 21 January 2022 5 minutes reading time

Not only Sofia Goggia. Of course, the Bergamo-born is the great favorite and the absolute reference point of the Avalanche Rosa, but tomorrow on the Olympia delle Tofane which finally returns to host a World Cup race after three years, there will also be other blue who will be able to attack the podium area in the fifth seasonal descent, even more so then on Sunday in super-g. At .30 on Saturday the start, with eight Italians at the gate (there will be no Karoline Pichler compared to the tests, with the South Tyrolean who is concentrating on the super-g). We have already reported the post training statements of Sofia Goggia, very confident after putting aside the fear of the fall of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. Third and seventh in the two tests, Federica Brignone is aiming for an important result also in the downhill. “I'm doing well in this discipline too and I try, Cortina is a stage that is missing from my palmares and perhaps I have never been able to shine here, it would be very nice for me to do it here at home. After that there will be Kronplatz and Garmisch, so there is still a long way to go before Beijing: I think about it and I don't think about the Olympics. Yesterday the wind bothered me in the upper part, today more in the final part. I have to put all things together; They were two excellent tests for me and I sincerely hope to have a good race tomorrow ”. Marta Bassino analyzes her return on the descent in this way: “I have decided that I will follow the complete program by also doing the descent. Here it is always very beautiful, the track amuses me a lot. Tonight I will do a nice video analysis and then there will be the super-g on Sunday, where I arrive from fourth place in Altenmarkt and therefore I know that I can do well in this discipline too. Yesterday I had strange sensations, with the snow harder than usual, then it had been a while that I hadn't worn long downhill skis and so I needed to get comfortable. Today I am better in general and I am happy: tomorrow I will put all the pieces together ". Nadia Delago, level up in the second round: “I found myself a little better today, compared to yesterday I found a good feeling. The race is tomorrow and I hope to do even better, I didn't feel the wind so much if not a little bit at the bottom, but it comes and goes; therefore, one must also have luck ”. Elena Curtoni explained, also toisi.org, that “it's always nice to come back here, I like the track a lot and I enjoy it a lot. This year is more difficult than usual with hard snow, which crashes and therefore is more in my ropes. I am happy and confident for tomorrow. It will be a bit of a lottery for the wind, since a lot of it is planned, but you have to put everything on the pitch and that's what I will do. The gusts came and went today, we mustn't think about it too much ".

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