Sofia, that broken hand and the hug with Dr. Panzeri: "Moved by the help received after the accident"

The special triumph of Goggia in the second descent of Sankt Moritz, told by the dominatrix of the specialty who is now chasing Shiffrin with a 50 pt gap in the general. Curtoni disappointed, "but I'm already thinking about super-g". Brignone: "We are a very strong team, today I didn't know how to adapt to the change of snow".

Saturday 17 December 2022 6 minutes reading time

The umpteenth feat of an already legendary career, also due to the many injuries followed by extraordinary recoveries. Of course, this time as she herself admitted after the race, the situation was not comparable to what she experienced in Beijing with the Olympic silver medal won three weeks after the knee crash in the super-g in Cortina, but Sofia Goggia she combined big again, triumphing for the third time this season in an encore descent, on the snow of Sankt Moritz, conquered with her left hand that had just been operated on after the fracture repaired yesterday. There are twenty gems in the World Cup, reaching Federica Brignone at the top of the ranking of the multi-winning blues, fifteen of which in her favorite discipline, where this season she collected 380 points out of the 400 available, now making a void on a Corinne Suter today in great difficulty. And there are 50 lengths to recover from Mikaela Shiffrin, even if the American has shown that she can pick up a lot even in speed and will have, from the end of the year on, many technical races in series to escape. Meanwhile, Sunday will be a battle in super-g and, even if the hand will be a more evident problem in that specialty, for Sofia now is just the time for joy and thanks. "This morning, skiing in a free field, when I realized that I could compete, holding the egg position, I felt incredible happiness - the Bergamo native told Rai Sport microphones - I knew that no one would have felt that happiness. ''another girl, up there leaving. Sure, a few thoughts went through my head, but I knew I had some leeway after those tests and that I could still do it. More difficult here or in Beijing? Undoubtedly there in China, but I want to sincerely thank all the people who helped me yesterday, starting with Doctor Panzeri (the hug in the parterre with the president of the FISI medical commission was wonderful), from the drivers to the San Donato group who record made the best specialists available to me to operate immediately on the Madonnina. This victory is also for them”. Race 2 went less well for Elena Curtoni, eighth today after Friday's victory, but the Valtellinese (always interviewed by her colleague Simone Benzoni) is looking ahead. “I am satisfied with the aggressiveness and the skiing put on the track, but the mistake made was not needed. Head to tomorrow”, when Elena will go to the assault on the success in super-g that she came close to a year ago, beaten by Federica Brignone. Just the holder of the CdM specialty, out of the points after a great first descent, thus analyzes today's difficulties, but also the umpteenth blue triumph: "I'm proud of what this group has been doing, for 6-7 years now - declared the Aosta Valley to Rai Sport - We are a real team, but there is a lot of work behind it even if we always talk about us athletes. Personally, today I believed in it and wanted to have a good race at least from halfway down, knowing I would lose at the top, but the snow was much drier than yesterday and right now I just can't find the right balance, as happened in Lake Louise . I didn't even perform when cornering, I have to find solutions to adapt to these conditions".

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