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The Piedmontese, with today's 3rd place in Igls, wrote a page in the history of the blue skeleton becoming the first Italian athlete to get on a World Cup podium. His words in the post-race.
Friday 26 November 2021 5 minutes reading time
The best day of your career, after having dreamed and cherished it for a long time.
A well-deserved podium, the first in the history of the blue skeleton in CdM, with the signature of a wonderful Valentina Margaglio, capable today of exalting herself on a track she loves like that of Igls to conquer a third place that makes history.
The '93 Alexandrian class, with the absolute best time in the 2nd heat, was able to climb from eighth place up to the third step of a podium that already suggests that in Beijing, at the next Olympic Games, there will be to deal with the movement's leading blue, now a reality at these levels. “I am really happy - her words to physi.org in a clearly special and full of emotions post-race - I listened to the technicians and in the second run I only thought about my descent.
I managed to make some nice lines and, while I was waiting for the result, I noticed that from the middle onwards all were losing and I couldn't explain why. Then I began to understand ...
I didn't push very hard, in reality, because I still carry some consequences of the foot injury I suffered in the pre-Olympic ”. In fact, Margaglio was even in doubt for the first seasonal races. “After the first heat the top ten were all very close - continues Valentina analyzing this afternoon's race - and this shows how the level in women's races has risen.
It is more difficult to arrive at the result, but there is more taste when you succeed. I'm not used to winning, but I have a lot less effort to recover when I'm a little behind in the first heat. This is an aspect that I will have to work on. however I feel I have made many steps forward; once I made a mistake and dragged it around for so many curves, now I have learned to not care and things are much better. The work done this year has been really a lot: I haven't been back home for two months and now I'm really happy.
This result is dedicated to the whole Italian skeleton and also to the bobsleigh: I hope to give everyone motivation ".
The sporting director Maurizio Oioli is the coach who has followed all the competitive growth of the Piedmontese. “Valentina has always had constant growth, due to the great work done every year - explains the blue manager - She has always had exceptional natural driving skills, but now she is also growing in driving. Margaglio and Nikitina are the two best skeletonists on the circuit right now. Valentina just has to remove some mistakes and then ... ".
And again: “The work done this year to recover it was tiring, intense, but it paid off. After the injury, Valentina only started seriously in September, but we never stopped. Last week he had already given some signals and today this result has arrived that pays off for everything. For the future, certainly on the more technical tracks where driving matters a lot, she is not yet at the level of the best, but she has made progress anyway: she can also think of winning ".
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