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The Ticinese spoke to the "Blick" on the occasion of the traditional pre-season match. "It took time to completely overcome covid, but now I feel better than at 20."
Wednesday 5 October 2022 4 minutes reading time
Alpine skiing Switzerland has launched the new competitive season on the occasion of the week of events at “The Hall” in Duebendorf, near Zurich. A day, yesterday, dedicated to the presentation of Swiss-Ski with all its partners, with the delivery of materials to the athletes and everything related to the media department.
On the occasion, Mattias Germann of "Blick" intercepted Lara Gut-Behrami, fresh from the year in which she managed to win her first Olympic title, with that super-g masterpiece in Yanqing, but who also experienced a A very complicated 2021/22, after touching her second World Cup a few months earlier in the duel, interrupted in the fog of Lenzerheide, with Petra Vlhova.
The Ticino champion, in fact, lost 9 races and therefore every chance to fight for the crystal ball between the fall of Sankt Moritz, which certainly had a weight, but above all the subsequent positivity to the pre-race covid of Val d '' Isère. “The tests in the spring showed a lung infection - Lara says now - I had 20% less respiratory capacity than usual, but I had a virus similar to the one that causes glandular fever. A consequence of the coronavirus? We don't know, but luckily it's all over now, it took 2-3 months to heal completely ”.
Gut-Behrami was back on skis directly in Chile before the end of the summer: “I feel very good and I don't feel any kind of pressure; I don't have to prove anything anymore and I enjoy skiing so much. My future? Maybe I'll only go on for a year, or two, three, four, but I know I feel better now at 31 than I did when I was 20. I have a good environment around me, I know my body better and I want to improve. So, if you ask me about the upcoming Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics, I can say that there are days when I think there will be no problems, but also others in which I tell myself that in four years I could do something completely different ".
Meanwhile, the viewfinder is aimed at Soelden where the red-cross star has already won twice and last year was close to second from Mikaela Shiffrin ...
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