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Goggia dissolves the reserve for the World Cup finals: 43 days after the injury he will be back on track, even if the weather makes everything uncertain for tomorrow's test. The tests in Livigno were decisive: the words of the Italian champion.
Sunday 14 March 2021 6 minutes reading time
A dream, an unattainable goal at least in the first weeks after surgery on that right knee whose lateral tibial plate was broken in that mocking and absurd fall of Garmisch, the one that last January 31 broke the world dreams of Sofia Goggia.
He wanted to save at least the downhill World Cup he deserved, with a second place and four victories in the series in the five races, but showing up at the gate of the final race in Lenzerheide, on March 17, seemed like a "mission impossible". Instead, the dream became hope and then reality as the days went by and in the late evening of Saturday, after the tests in Livigno (as we had let our readers know) had been more than good, the Olympic champion herself dissolved the reserve: she will go to Lenzerheide for the World Cup finals, to take home at least that 8th place that would guarantee her second crystal ball in descent, regardless of the result of Corinne Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami, those that endanger a result that has been a stimulus to sign this record recovery.
Monday, the day of the first scheduled test in Switzerland (but the weather puts it at risk, as does the race itself on Wednesday), only 43 days will have elapsed since the Garmisch accident and the next day's operation at the La clinic. Madonnina of Milan. "I entered the room and we immediately hugged each other: I shed a few tears on her gown and then, to give me a sort of attitude, I lay down on the bed, ready to receive the imminent osteopathic treatment - writes Sofia in her long social message - sitting in rigorous silence, but I had the impression that she behaved just like that to respect that dimension of emptiness mixed with pain that I carried close to me and that I still could not shake off.
Suddenly, however, he asked me: "What do you want?" I frowned: I felt so paralyzed and overwhelmed by the situation that I did not feel the lack of anything and, even less, the desire to lean towards something. I replied: “Nothing, Paolo. I don't want anything ”. I didn't go into the conversation but inside I knew it: I was lying and maybe even to myself. Yes. I had a tremendous need to return to desire something in my heart, because life without a true desire to guide us, whether it is a person, a goal to reach, a goal, or the same star is not life, on the contrary, it is a disaster. , and I had the need to get out of the latter and that stagnant limbo in which I had run into and in which I no longer recognized myself.
Wish yes. But what? I got off the bed and finally managed to extend my leg. I felt really better and he dismissed me saying that, as he had perceived it, with his hands, the knee had seemed nice and stable. The next day while I was walking under the Bergamo sun for the first time completely without crutches, I dialed the number of Dr. Schoenhuber: “Herbert, can I make it to the finals?”. It was Tuesday. It was March 2nd. And it was the first time my heart was filled with desire again. Per aspera ad astra ”.
Sofia's journey, from Milan to the heart of Mantua, from the gym in Verona to the snow of Livigno, is now complete. It remains the last masterpiece to be signed, to raise that cup.
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