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The 6th place in Soelden must be just the beginning for the Bergamo-born, who has found stimulus and speed. On December 5-6 he will really start his season on the track where he achieved his last success.
Wednesday 21 October 2020 4 minutes reading time
Two days in the gym to work hard right away, waiting to get back on the snow after the intense pre Soelden work carried out between Hintertux and Val Senales.
For Sofia Goggia it was an excellent opening, the one on Rettenbach which saw her take the sixth final position. Of course, quite far from Petra Vlhova's podium and even more so from the two teammates Bassino and Brignone, whom he defined as “the world reference for the giant”, but what the Bergamo rider showed in the first seasonal giant bodes well.
Not so much and not only on the technical level, also because on the steep there is still a lot of work to be done as demonstrated by the partials on the Rettenbach wall, in both heats, but for the speed that Sofia was able to express in the stretches to her more congenial and the newfound motivation, fundamental for one with his character. “I realized how much I had missed skiing,” Goggia said after the race. Words that matter, and how.
If the parallel of Lech of next November 13th, the only one of the season, cannot be taken as a reference for practically anyone, here is that the real season of the Olympian will begin on December 5th-6th in Sankt Moritz, on that '' Engiadina where he obtained, on 14 December 2019, his last victory in the World Cup. Precisely in super-g, or the two races that we will see on the very tough Swiss track, and on that day where the podium was completed by Federica Brignone, only 1 cent away, and Mikaela Shiffrin.
Without Lake Louise, never too loved by Sofia, the calendar could already help to find the continuity necessary to fight in terms of specialty cups and ... general. Yes, because the real Goggia (third overall 2016/17) can think of fighting all right with three disciplines available and the total elimination of combined and (with the exception of Lech) parallels.
The key? The giant, in fact, where he has not been on the podium since 6 January 2018 (3rd place in Kranjska Gora, but the 2nd heat seemed almost a ... super-g) and, in reality, has not expressed himself for even longer on levels of magic 2016/17. A discipline in which Sofia has never won in the CdM, but returning to the top 15 is the first step to get back close to the podium. And at that point anything could happen ...
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