Elena Fanchini: "I was aiming all about the Olympics, but falls ..."

MONTECAMPIONE (Brescia) - The season closed early for Elena Fanchini from Montecampione, province of Brescia, born in 1985, her older sister Nadia, who has not taken part in the recent Italian Championships in Santa Caterina, in its specialties, downhill and super-G, due to a fall in workout right on track "Deborah Compagnoni" a few days ago, so afraid, mainly because injured his knee after the flight is the right, already worked for cruciate rupture in the past, but the resonance showed "only" a strained side. "

Friday 4 April 2014 5 minutes reading time

So now rest, vacation slightly postponed in May, and then again ready for another season, one that will lead the sprinter camuna thirty. Elena, meanwhile, how are you? "Fortunately nothing serious, it could have been much worse. Too, because the knee is very swollen. Sorry I was not able to participate in the Absolutes, now I'll do a month plenty of physiotherapy and then a little vacation, maybe to the first May, before resuming athletic training. All in all, it went well, not seriously injured in this period is the lesser of two evils. " What is the budget of a season, his, then went very well and started dropping in? "Yeah. The main objective was that of the Sochi Olympics, but unfortunately I got there with the confidence to do well, because of the three falls in a row at the World Cup in the previous races. But at least I'm back on the podium after 8 long years. It ' was a great feeling, that I had not felt for a lifetime. Located in Beaver Creek, then, in the first race of the season on the track that will host World Cup 2015, the "Raptor", I placed third in downhill after going badly in the tests, so I really did not expect that. Then, obviously, I unlocked and Lake Louise, Canada, where I had already won in the downhill, but in 2005, I hit a third and fifth place, on a track that I really like and where Nadia and I, we have always found them very good. " Then, falls ... "Then, unfortunately, are plunged back into a negative situation, already lived in the past, just when I had found all the confidence. When you fall once, you one thing, but three consecutive outputs in a row, after you've already done wrong so many times in the past, leave a mark, you condition, there is no nothing to do. Plus I slipped even in the trials of the Olympic downhill. A couple of decent races are still unable to make them between Cortina and Lenzerheide, but not as early in the season. A shame, really. " Here, and the question now is: will to again in a hurry to get rid of her fears, so you do not have to wait long to find her on the podium? "But yes, I think I have already In fact, in reality. Why at the end of the season I was discouraged, I did not want to go to the Finals in Lenzerheide, where at the end I still managed to score points and to close one of the ten in the specialty. It ' was, on balance, one of my best seasons ever, perhaps even the best, mainly due to the first three results. Then Santa Canterina, just during training and testing, I was back to ski well and trust, before hurting me again. But there is plenty of time to recover well and looking good at the start of next season. " Glad for the year of her sister, Nadia, very steady at a good level? "Glad, of course, but I think it deserved at least a podium in giant slalom. In the last few races between the Olympics and the World Cup is seemed obvious that it was one of the best in the world in the discipline, but unfortunately it is not managed to finish in the top three, is was a bit ' unfortunate, too. However, we will be back together next year. "

Gianmario Bonzi

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