Mattia Case: “As a young man I was a chaos, now I learned to manage me”

Italy is looking for the third medal in three races at the Saalbach World Cup. He does it in the men’s superg, after gold with the team in the parallel and silver with Federica Brignone in Superg women of yesterday. Among the blue hopes there is Mattia Case That in the evidence of the descent, on the same track, he ranked tenth and fourth. The goal is to replicate what was done on Saslong in Val Gardena, where he obtained his first and only victory in the maximum circuit in this specialty, right this season, at 34 years old. «I had a victory, I went near the podium in Bormio downhill. I know I am there, it’s a good and it is certainly a good push for everything that comes from now on. I have to continue being on the piece, then the races are always a question point ».

What did the difference made this season?
«Something that comes from far away. I have been continuous for three years, they are always there in the 10 or in any case close to the 10. Every year it makes you brick and you get to the moment when there are the best performances. There is a different awareness, which has been built in recent years. There is all a different background that makes me stay there, there is a construction behind it is not that you improvise. It can always be improvised because the day is there, but they don’t think so. I want to be competitive every race, every time, the bar has now risen again ».

Has the career of the skiers stretched out?
“It has changed totally. Also in other sports where it is more effort as cycling or like athletics it goes a lot. There are many factors together: nutrition, integration, training, materials. This set of factors meant that you go ahead. “

Favorite track?
«There are many. I have a love I hate with Wengen because I like it very much, but I have performed too little. I would like to be even faster. In Kitzbühel it is always nice to test yourself with yourself and the track because it is always demanding ».

How much are the Olympics a dream?
«The Olympics are a dream and they are a goal, at least once sooner or later I will want to go, it would be nice to do it at home. We do them in Bormio, it is a track that we know and have done and redone a thousand times. Surely in February it will be a little different. The track is demanding in itself and changes a lot based on the snow ».

First time on skis?
“At two and a half years or three.”

Didn’t there be an alternative?
“I know no, living in the mountains. I played soccer a little when I was little. Then I chose the ski. Mannaggia to me (laughs ed): my habitat is mine, I’m fine, but in football maybe I earned more. I chose the passion ».

What are the things you are careful? Training, nutrition?
«I started that I was a total chaos. They are of a generation daughter of the work, but also of the little attention to detail. Then as I have gone on over the years I have evolved as a person, also thanks to my wives, I improved from the point of view of nutrition. There is a routine. If I think about what I do today and what I did when, by age, in theory I had to be stronger or better, I will laugh ».

ìmattia crates descends with the pectoral number 13 at 11 and 58, except delays. The athletes with a bib between 1 and 15 are presented to the starting gate with intervals of 2’20 “together. The race is broadcast live on TV on Rai 2 and Eurosport 1. You can stream on Rai Play, Discovery+, Skygo, Now, Dazn.