Max Blardone: "I leave with no regrets"

A short distance from the dispute of his last race in the World Cup, the Giant & nbsp; St. Moritz, we had a long talk with & nbsp; Max Blardone that open heart told us the most & ugrave moments; important of his long career.

Tuesday 22 March 2016 8 minutes reading time

Chat & egrave; It began retracing the time when little Max took his first steps on skis: & ldquo; I was 3 years and 8 days in Macugnaga when I put for the first time on skis. It & rsquo; was love at first sight, at least cos & igrave; they told me my parents. After 33 years I have not yet taken off and not do away them memorize options; ever, competitive spirit aside & rdquo ;. It passes the first races and dreams of competing in the World Cup, momentarily broken by a serious injury when the & rsquo; Ossola was on the rise: & ldquo; Get on competitively game has always been part of my character and my life, and with the ski I succeeded. When you win the various youth competitions and win despite being pi & ugrave; smaller than the other & egrave; nice, but probably when I won the & rsquo; gold in slalom and bronze in combined, making all specialties & agrave ;, the World Cup juniors in March 1999, I realized that the dream of the cup. World I rocked for so long watching compete Alberto Tomba and others on TV and in identifying with them, you could accomplish. But I doubt c & rsquo; it was always because & eacute ;, after the jump in the B team and I did the best time in the internal qualification for the first races of the season, in mid & agrave; October I hurt allo Stelvio and I operated herniated disc Nov. 22. What & egrave; It was probably the most & ugrave time; bad of my career. I did not rehabilitation for 4 months as expected but for 8, calmly, before shuttling from home to & rsquo; Humanitas in Rozzano and then remained at home. So I put the skis and and at that point I was lucky, being a generational change taking place, being promoted to Team A with the other guys on the team B for a long-term project. Cos & igrave; I had the & rsquo; opportunity & agrave; to measure myself with more & ugrave; Azure strong that, as Patrick Holzer, Giorgio Rocca, Alessandro Roberto and others, and once again won the internal qualification I port memorize options then to make his debut in the World Cup in S & ouml; SÃ¶lden, plus managing with a breastplate high to qualify for the second run (at the finish line was later twentieth and then suffered in the points, ed). Those were the years when the press tried spasmodically l & rsquo; heir of Alberto Tomba, who had won his last race in Crans-Montana in 1998: & ldquo; I would have liked so much to be like Alberto! L & rsquo; I always saw him as an idol, then l & rsquo; I also met and & egrave; become a friend. Alberto ce n & rsquo; & egrave; It was only one, and probably will not meet again another, and in any case I never felt the responsibility & agrave; to be considered one of his heirs, each one makes his path and I have always done the best I could & rdquo ;. Blardone instead confirmed what had already & agrave; He said these days about what was the most & ugrave time; beautiful of his career: & ldquo; I thought about it a lot in the last few weeks because & eacute; I knew that everyone would have asked me that question. The podium this season I wanted it strongly and I trained durissimamente to get it and to be able to dedicate to my family, I have succeeded in Naeba and why I think that was the pi & ugrave time; beautiful of my sporting life. The 16 years of the World Cup were a & rsquo; unforgettable life experience, I met many people and I have traveled the world but almost always going in the same resort & agrave; & rdquo ;. L & rsquo; Ossola & egrave; in effect one of pi & ugrave; strong Italian gigantism of the story but in its wall there are not n & eacute; The specialty & agrave cup; n & eacute; medals at major events but he, when asked if he regretted not having won the answers cos & igrave ;: & ldquo; Every man can memorize options realize their dreams and also has the ability & agrave; to go beyond their dreams. I won 7 of the World Cup, I got 9 times second and third six times and I did a lot of other placings in the first 10-15, a medal or, above all, a cup of specialty & agrave; It would have been only a pi & ugrave ;. I have absolutely no regrets for not having conquered & rdquo ;. Finally, a look to the future and a retrospective of Expo 2015, which Blardone & egrave; He was ambassador: & ldquo; I have a lot at stake projects. These weeks they will need to arrange their thoughts and make the right choices. Expo 2015? It & rsquo; It was a & rsquo; another beautiful opportunity & agrave; I & egrave; been granted, it born almost a year before it started .. L & rsquo; Italy & egrave; one of the pi & ugrave; beautiful countries of the world and the theme of food Who better than we could reclamizzarlo? & rdquo; Max good life, and thanks!

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