Blue voices from Atomic Day. Goggia ready: "After the most difficult challenge, now I think about improving myself"

The Bergamasque polar star, together with Shiffrin and Kilde, of the meeting with the media in the Altenmarkt headquarters. Nadia Delago: "Sofia is a reference, but in general I train with a very strong team". Here is the first Vinatzer ... redster: "I also think of the giant and to grow in every aspect in slalom, consequently the results will come".

Thursday 6 October 2022 6 minutes reading time

A little more than two weeks after the opening of the World Cup in Soelden, this is the most awaited meeting at the average level, because the Atomic Day for many years has brought a series of champions with engines to Altenmarkt. "Hot" towards the new season. Before and after the photo shoots, here are the interviews dedicated and carried out by Alexandra Meissnitzer, with the ten stars of the brand that brought home the Women's World Cup with Mikaela Shiffrin, crystal balls in speed and Olympic medals in 2021/22 with Aleksander Aamodt Kilde great protagonist and naturally present at the meeting as Feller, Schwarz, Braathen, Puchner, the new Mina Fuerst Holtmann and three Azzurri at the center of attention. Another addition to the Atomic team, Alex Vinatzer, and the "very faithful" Sofia Goggia and Nadia Delago, who climbed together on the podium of the Olympic descent in Beijing. The general manager of the brand, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, and the director of the "racing department", Christian Hoeflehner, launched the approaching vintage, also presenting the new project dedicated to juniors and citing Hermann Maier and Benni Raich as examples of athletes who started from Atomic to reach the top of the world. "We have a responsibility to have part of the future of this sport in our hands," said Hoeflehner. All the more reason after the farewell of Ester Ledecka, who spent the summer in Kaestle, Sofia Goggia is the absolute reference point for Atomic in speed and, after the third downhill World Cup won by the Bergamo champion, which is added to a '' another Olympic medal, one can only aim high with the blue. Interviewed by Meissnitzer in the living room together with Shiffrin and Kilde (we report in a separate article the statements of the American and the Norwegian), Sofia is back on the suffering of a second part of last year that is truly incredible. "The last one was a crazy season, from the five victories in December to the falls at Altenmarkt and Cortina - the story of the 2018 Olympic champion - I had to do something huge to be there at the Olympics, the doctors had given me hope but that Silver for me was incredible, after what happened. However, it was just as difficult in the post season, there was a lot of work to do on my body: yes, that Olympic descent was the most difficult challenge of my career and how much, in terms of sacrifice and preparation, it was linked to it". How is Goggia in this phase of the approach to the new season? She tells us herself: “Well so, I worked a lot after completing the full recovery after injury in the spring. The total 35 days put together in Argentina, where we were finally able to return after Covid, were also important to train on the giant. I needed it (as his new personal coach, Luca Agazzi has often pointed out) because I had finished with bad feelings in the second half of last year. So we had a particular focus on technique. Working with Paris? I was really lucky - underlined Sofia recalling the training in Ushuaia alongside “Domme (updating)

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