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Bergamo, interviewed by Flavio Vanetti of the "Corriere della Sera", talks about her changes and that she also thought about retiring in the worst moments.
Sunday 10 May 2020 4 minutes reading time
A new Sofia Goggia, starting from a fundamental choice such as that linked to the skiman after the farewell, at the end of a season for her which ended a few weeks in advance due to Garmisch's injury with Federico Brunelli.
In recent days, Barnaba Greppi's official status, born in 1958 and Bergamo like Sofia, has arrived as the new guardian angel of the Atomic family; married to Bibiana Perez, well known working in the national team where he also prepared the skis for two champions such as Deborah Compagnoni and Isolde Kostner, Greppi lived alongside Lara Gut the golden years of Ticino and, with his thirty years of experience, represents a guarantee for the Olympic descent.
A Goggia that decided to start practically from scratch, as he confessed to Flavio Vanetti, on the columns of the "Corriere della Sera": "We are constantly evolving, but I have always recovered from the down phases and in the lockdown period I did resort to a secular spirituality. At the retreat I thought about it, yes, because I couldn't get joy from what I was doing. I had two options: stop or chase the top again, I chose the second way. Too many falls? They were not the result of frustration, but I was unstable on skis, or the mirror of my soul ".
It has been a historic season for Italian women's skiing with the first World Cup to come to the notice board thanks to Federica Brignone ("pagan constancy and continuity, chapeau to all girls"), but Sofia does not feel less. “I believe that my absolute value is not in question, having won the Olympics and a descent cup in front of the Vonn. Now maybe the other girls on the team will have their eyes on me, I will be like a start-up you can invest in. "
And the next World Cup (and the World Championships in Cortina) with a thousand unknowns related to Coronavirus? “If there is a normal season, Shiffrin will win. Everything succeeds to her, she sings and is in tune, she plays and does not play, she reads in Greek and she is good. Then when skiing it is a violin, while I a rock and roll. I only know that it will be a slaughterhouse to resume, my skiman already tells me to prepare for a season with few races ".
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