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Two devastating stops in less than a year, but the desire to play it again at the highest levels since the start of next season. The Austrian gigantist is told ...
Monday 17 June 2019 4 minutes reading time
Stephanie Brunner and the goddess blindfold have certainly not had an excellent relationship in recent times.
The double break of the crusader between March 2018, when the knee collapsed due to a fall in the descent of the Austrian championships, and last January, do not seem to stop the will of one of the most talented specialists of the circuit, capable of 25 years of constantly being in the first group despite recent injuries.
On the way back, last season Brunner was able to finish four times in as many races in the top 6, finally taking the first and well-deserved podium in the World Cup at Killington, in the giant won by Federica Brignone. Now it is called to a new start, with a new technical manager at the head of an Austrian national technical specialty that, apart from injuries (really many in the last 3 years), wants to make a change with the former male norway manager, Christian Mitter, back home.
"I had a good phase of rehabilitation, I can run and do everything again - explains" Stephi "- I worked a lot in the Olympic center in Innsbruck, often in the company of Stefan Brennsteiner (another luxury injured in the Wunderteam men's sector, ed) . After a while, training individually becomes quite boring. "
The goal is to put the skis back on already in July: "Yes, I should do it also because I stopped in January, so already in spring I was well under way. I had lived an excellent season until that moment, I will try to start from that point â€.
The Tyrolean, who had already broken tibia and fibula in 2012 to then graduate from the junior world slalom champion in Roccaraso (beating a certain Petra Vlhova, among others ...), and rewarded in that case by Alberto Tomba, is not certainly one that springs easily and points straight to the great return to Solden. "We have not yet defined my presence in Argentina for autumn work, we will have to assess my condition in the first summer training sessions."
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