Alpine Skiingthe 2022 sports festival
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The two axes of speed guests together with the Festival dello Sport. The Norwegian has told a wonderful career, starting from the dramatic injury in Beaver Creek. Is the blue leader already thinking of Milan Cortina? Not yet, but how many stimuli for next season. And Sunday the grand finale with Compagnoni-Brignone and Vonn-Goggia.
Saturday 24 September 2022 7 minutes reading time
A special meeting, not an absolute novelty for a review like "Il Festival dello Sport" which had already hosted two extraordinary champions like them, but in Trento it was really special and interesting to see together Dominik Paris and Aksel Lund Svindal, gathered at the 'Auditorium Santa Chiara to open the third day of the “La Gazzetta dello Sport” event.
"A life in downhill", could only be called in this way the appointment between two former great rivals, always united by a great relationship on and off the track, even after the Norwegian champion has decided to abandon the competitive spirit, with that last silver magic in the world descent of Are 2019. "Aksel was there on the occasion of my first podium in 2011, in Chamonix (Domme was 2nd behind Cuche, Svindal closed 14th) , and since then I have believed more and more in myself trying to improve myself at each race ”, the first story of Paris.
Svindal, on the other hand, recalled in particular his first experience outside Norway, right in Italy, in Folgaria: “I was 17 and I thought I was one of the best and instead, when I came to you, I found many older and more prepared athletes. I began to understand that if you do not have a certain type of fear, you will not reach the bottom because it is fear that pushes you to do the best. If you want to win you have to take the risk, go beyond your limits ”.
On the subject of jumps, Aksel could only recall what happened in Beaver Creek in 2007, when he risked dying on the Birds of Prey, falling due to a gust of wind on the Golden Eagle. “I was 24 years old (and just won the World Cup and two world titles in Are in the previous season, ed) and I thought about quitting, because I had suffered a really serious injury. Just think that before that day I weighed 105 kilos, when I left the hospital I had dropped to 83 and I had to start all over again starting from the physical recovery, but above all from the psychological one ".
"Domme" got ready until a few days ago in Ushuaia and showed confidence for the 2022/23 season, in which to go to the assault of the first downhill world title, in the world championship of Courchevel Méribel (and of the dream of that first crystal ball in the queen discipline, always and only touched ...). “I will go on as long as I have passion and have fun, I still feel eager to grow and be creative. The Milan Cortina Games? I do not know how long I will go on and I do not guarantee if I will be in Bormio in 2026 (where the men's competitions will be staged).
Fun is the fundamental thing: you have to feel the desire to jump into the corners, to feel the speed. Passion and fun: it is the most beautiful message to deliver to young people ”.
While in today's afternoon the winter disciplines were again protagonists at the Sports Festival with Nadir Maguet, the "wizard" of skyrunning, and with Arianna Fontana who talked about herself together with her coach husband Anthony Lobello, on Sunday the grand finale with alpine skiing again absolute protagonist.
At 10.00, again at the Santa Chiara Auditorium, here is “The art of skiing” with Deborah Compagnoni and Federica Brignone, while at 17.00 the games will close, in the true sense of the words, Lindsey Vonn and Sofia Goggia. "At high speed" with the two dominators of the downhill in recent years, will be staged at the Teatro Sociale di Trento (also in this case with free admission subject to availability).
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