Marta Bassino is all smile and determination. You don’t need to see her, even on the phone her voice is smiling and the answers are all immediate. The ideas are clear, the fixed points: skiing has always been, the Piedmontese home for relaxation, the mountain inside, but also the sea just a few steps away. Marta Bassino is the flagship of the blue expedition to Cortina ski world championships (from 7 to 21 February). It is because in great shape, but expectations have increased after Sofia Goggia’s forfeit due to injury.
For her four races starting from the combined on Monday 8, then the super-G on Tuesday and the single parallel a week later. The wait is however above all for the giant slalom on February 18th, the race he has already won four times this season.
24 years old, Piedmontese from Borgo San Dalmazzo, corporal major of the Army with a book always in his suitcase and the music of Last to listen to. “I’m his fan, I was very sorry not to be able to go to the concert for which I already had the ticket.” It causes Covid of course, which also prevents it from happening public at the Cortina World Championships. “Will miss. There will be no fans who have always followed me ».
He has always had skis on. “The first time I was two. My father was a teacher and the mountains are home to us ». Marta Bassino comes home as often as she can. “At home I relax, in recent weeks I am very sorry for the areas in difficulty, Limone Piemonte hit by the flood and with the plants closed”.
To disconnect from everything? “The sea and the mountains, which are both not far from my home. Ventimiglia, in Liguria, is easily reached, a walk on foot and you are on the beach alone. The mountain is the Gesso valley, better in the places where he doesn’t pick up the phone ». Always and in any case outdoors to play sports. It is a constant in the life of the blue giant who has a past in artistic gymnastics.
Does lightness on skis come from here? «Maybe it looks like this, but you need” heaviness “, to remain attached to the snow». So is it better to say elegance? “Yup, elegance it’s a nice term. ” It will be no coincidence that his book of the moment is The elegance of the hedgehog. The reading advice comes from his trainer, Marco Giordano. At school, sports high school, his subjects were literature and philosophy. Nothing to do with the numbers, not even those of his race times.
The geography is clear, Cortina-Beijing-Cortina. After these world championships, it’s up to the 2022 Olympics in China and the following ones are those of 2026, Milan-Cortina. Marta Bassino plans to get there. To make history it must start here. And the place is always the same, Cortina d’Ampezzo.
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