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The 25 year old South Tyrolean will have to wait a few more weeks before putting his skis back on after the injury. He has confessed to SportNews all the fears of the past few months, how he is restarting and what he is aiming for.
Thursday 25 June 2020 6 minutes reading time
Italy will have one more Simon Maurberger, in the engine of the slalomgigantist team that has resumed preparation in the snow in the last two weeks.
At the Stelvio there was no class '' 95 native of the Aurina Valley, still in the recovery phase like Manfred Moelgg himself, to return to the snow when he is close to 100%, after the rupture of the crusader and meniscus of the right knee , due to that twist in the discussed Chamonix parallel. Just the day he was also playing chances of victory, he who is a great specialist in the discipline, and a few days later the best result of his career in the World Cup, the fantastic 5th place in the Schladming slalom.
The blue had to stop at the best moment of his career and he confessed, to the colleagues of SportNews who have reached him, that he also had very difficult moments after the injury. "There were days when I wanted to throw everything away - Simon's words - Little by little things got better, I also did a lot of rehabilitation together with Manfred Moelgg and this helped me, even if his knee injury was slightly different from my.
Manni has always told me to be patient, he was a great support and allowed me to concentrate, relax and work better on recovery. And now I can train very well, completing eight to ten sessions per week. "
The qualitative leap shown by Maurberger in the last season has been evident, in giant but above all in slalom. “I have changed, in the sense that I do not think too much about the mistakes made, preparing myself with greater awareness for what will come next. In addition, I changed some technical aspects before the Christmas period, and since then I have had an ever better performance. I don't deny it, I aim to return to the top soon and if the goal is to improve the starting lists, in terms of results I want to consistently reach the top 5 ".
The Chamonix injury has hurt from many points of view, also because it occurred in a race context considered by many (athletes themselves) dangerous. "Coming home that day, I have seen the fall several times on video and now I can say that it doesn't have any effect to review the images - says" Maubi "- Alexis Pinturault, who was one of the spokespersons to raise the issue of safety and the regularity of the race, he sent me a beautiful message wishing me a speedy recovery and I believe that this shows how there is a certain cohesion between us athletes.
Maybe it hasn't always been like this, but the voice has risen univocally towards FIS: it can and must be improved in many ways, but I myself remain a big fan of parallel as a discipline, even if it needs to be improved. I consider the calendar situation more critical, for example: we cannot start the season in October, remain still for many weeks (referring to slalom and giant in particular) and then find all the classics in January. This entails a high risk of accidents, but now I believe a process of research has begun to find solutions ”.
When will we see Simon Maurberger on skis again? “I want to go back in August and I work for this goal every day. It was not easy, after such a serious first injury it seemed to me that nothing was going well, I had to learn to manage such a stop. Now I have regained all the confidence it takes to get back to the first one. "
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