The three-time Olympic champion praised Goggia and her companions: “The successes of Sofia, Bassino, Brignone and Curtoni do honor to women’s skiing and to sport in general. The best ever? I think it’s Shiffrin”
January 21 – CORTINA (BELLUNO)
Deborah Compagnoni arrives on the parterre of the second Cortina descent and takes the applause of the enthusiasts. Then the three-time Olympian reads the moment of the blues: “Too bad for Sofia-she says after the fall of the Goggia, fortunately without consequences-. You can expect this kind of fall from her every now and then, as long as she didn’t get hurt. She’s always there, even after periods of break she then comes back and wins, so there’s nothing to worry about. Do you shiver when she gets off? In my opinion, when she goes down and makes a small mistake, she perceives that she has made a bigger one, that she has lost more, it escapes her that she has to recover and then she makes the mistake in which she instead risks it. That’s how she is, otherwise she wouldn’t win. It’s her way of approaching the race. Anyway, I want to congratulate all the Azzurri girls, I know how much effort and effort are behind these results. The successes of Goggia, Bassino, Brignone and Curtoni do credit to women’s skiing and to sport in general. This is still a healthy environment, they certainly don’t cheat to get these results.”
What courage
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Deborah returns to the exploit of Lindsey Vonn, who crowned one of her life’s dreams by descending the Kitzbuehel downhill slope at night. The American is expected in Cortina for the super-G. “Vonn’s Streif at night shocked me enough, I thought it was almost a photomontage. She was courageous, a phenomenon: she stopped a few years ago but keeps fit. I wouldn’t have been able to go down that far, even in a moment of great form. She is an athlete of another dimension, like Shiffrin: I really like her, both in terms of skiing and the technical and tactical management of the season, which leads her to not do some competitions. Even Federica Brignone does this from time to time and it’s right, today they make many more than in my time. In my opinion Shiffrin is the best ever, because winning in slalom and almost winning a downhill is not easy. The Stuhec? I don’t know her, but she is physically very strong. It took her a long time to recover from her injury. Good”.
January 21, 2023 (change January 21, 2023 | 16:43)
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