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A regular appointment during the season, the one with the thoughts of the Italian sprinter on the blog of the Red Bull house.
Tuesday 29 October 2019 5 minutes reading time
Sofia Goggia, who is already training at the Stelvio with the two companions of the national team of the elite, Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino, "confessed" after the disappointment of the season debut in Soelden, with the giant on Rettenbach not he has obtained the qualification for the 2nd run, certainly not easy starting with the bib number 64.
The Bergamo, however, did not want to look for alibis in the second episode of her "Being Sofia", explaining that there were all the possibilities for re-entering the top 30 and adjusting her situation in terms of starting number in giant, seen that also in Killington, in the next appointment among the wide doors scheduled for November 30th, the bib will be very high. About the weekend of races in Vermont, previously Sofia and the team mates will train at Copper Mountain to prepare both in giant, but above all in speed thinking about Lake Louise: appointment fixed with the flight for the States the next 11 November, while on Thursday 31 October and Friday 1 November, Goggia will also be among the protagonists of the Skipass fair in Modena.
"I am looking inside because with the race on Saturday I feel I have thrown away a beautiful occasion - the words of the Azzurri tip - Soelden has never been so generous of opportunities for those who, like me, left behind to qualify: the track it was really a pool table. Before the race I was very calm and calm, strong and also aware of the shape found on training days in Hintertux. But the mind is just as important and I do not hide that already from the first light of dawn, and in particular when I was in the start area near the gate, the tension of the first race started to be felt: I have a little suffered ".
"I say to myself that I did not manage to qualify for the second race only for two cents (three, to be precise, those necessary to equalize the time of Tilley, 30th), but the reality is that I did not find the fluency to be able to easily do a second of heats less, fluidity of action that I missed especially on the wall, where I remained "harnessed" in what was a super aggressive skiing and excessively clinging to the edges. Whoever keeps does not take the time and I have decidedly kept too much ".
Goggia looks ahead, aware that the lesson will serve for the future: "When you can't fully be yourself at the gate, the feeling that comes from it is something that hurts, inside. But I know very well that it is precisely from the pain that you can start again, because it constitutes something useful and important, it makes you grow as an athlete and "forces" you to be even more attentive and meticulous to all the work details and pushes you to take a deep analysis of everything. Almost a catharsis. It was an opportunity thrown to the wind, it is true, but I will treasure this experience, like everything ".
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