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Italy has always been waiting for an Olympic gold medal in a female downhill, it arrived today thanks to an incredible champion who responds to the name of Sofia Goggia.
Wednesday 21 February 2018 4 minutes reading time
Third gold for Italy at the PyeongChang Games, all of which came from women, all from Lombardy and two from the province or the city of Bergamo. Sofia was very good first of all to choose a low bib, 5, as opposed to what he had done in the tests, and has made an almost perfect race except in the top, the Olympic gold at his first Games (remember that in Sochi it was not there because injured as it often happened in the past) it projects it into a new dimension and silences all those who gave it to the overvalued or unable to win. His victory must be a starting point for the Italian women's squadron: it is no longer enough just the victories in the World Cup, the heavy gold is finally arrived at 16 years from the one in the super-G by Daniela Ceccarelli but we also expect the cups of specialty, and for this the appointment with the first trophy we hope for a long series is for the finals of Ã…re where in Sofia will be enough a second place.
No Italian had ever won the Olympic gold in downhill, not even the greatest blue in this specialty, Isolde Kostner, who stopped in bronze in 1994 and silver in 2002, bronze was also Giuliana Minuzzo in 1952. Goggia, however, has trembled as all of us when the real crazy variable of the Circus Rosa, the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel, has been down for the last time in months: the Scandinavian competed almost parallel with Sofia and in the end it stayed behind for only 9 cents going to get another silver after that of the giant and we dare not imagine what he could do with a lower number. The bronze, detached by 47 cents, went to Lindsey Vonn, to the third Olympic medal of a unique career: the repeated hugs with Sofia at the arrival parterre knew a lot of handing over.
Sorry for the fourth place at 63 cents of Tina Weirather, bronze in the super-G, and also for the release of all the other blue in the upper part: Nadia Fanchini and Federica Brignone have fallen hopelessly, has missed a door Nicol Delago. Fifth and seventh were placed by the Americans Alice McKennis and Breezy Johnson, sixth and eighth Swiss Corinne Suter and Michelle Gisin, ninth the German Viktoria Rebensburg, tenth the first of a disastrous Austrian team, Ramona Siebenhofer.
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