The black Sunday of the Italsci (and not only): from the crash of Goggia to the concern for Maurberger

The Azzurri lost Sofia for the rest of the season, while the South Tyrolean will discover his fate on Monday. And Vinatzer is back in bed with the flu ...

Sunday 9 February 2020 4 minutes reading time

A cursed Sunday, not only for the Italsci but in general for the whole movement, between various injuries and competitions ... at least discussed, even if the technical difficulty (even too much) of the female super-g of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is not in discussion, compared to the pastrocchio staged in Chamonix with the parallel giant. After Dominik Paris and Manfred Moelgg, the Italian national team also lost Sofia Goggia until the end of the season: of course, thinking of the next season the Olympian's injury is much less serious than that of "Domme", but in any case Bergamo has lost the chance to fight again for the speed specialty cups, her goal of this year which started badly in Lake Louise and continued ... worse, apart from the pearl in the super-g of Sankt Moritz that will remain unfortunately isolated. Italy that is likely to see in the pits until the finals of Cortina and beyond even Simon Maurberger, just in the year of the explosion of the 24 year old from the Aurina Valley, injured today in Chamonix. The right knee worries about the twist suffered, with a major blunt trauma that risks turning into something more serious, as Simon himself stressed that Monday morning should discover his destiny with further investigations. â€œI immediately felt a painful twinge before ending up in the nets, but I tried to go down on skis to make it a little less serious. It seemed bad to let me take the toboggan to the valley, now the exams then we'll see how to proceed. " In all this, it was a weekend for Alex Vinatzer to throw away too: back from three days in bed with the flu, the Val Gardena clearly tried to compete on Saturday, leaving after a few doors. "I made it worse, because now I'm knocked out again," Alex confessed on social media. Thinking that in just over a week he will already have to leave for Japan, in view of the slalom on Sunday 23rd in Yuzawa Naeba, the worst could not go ...

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