Sofia Goggia queen of descent, stronger even than bad luck

Come back and win. Without competing. Deserving everything, though. Another medal for Sofia Goggia, a kind of compensation of fate after the many injuries that in recent times have forced her to stop. Therefore: Sofia Goggia won the downhill world cup. In fact, the two free sessions scheduled in Lenzerheide, in Switzerland, have been canceled. The International Ski Federation has surrendered: it has acknowledged that bad weather would have made it impossible to dispute the races.

All canceled. The blue wins the title for the second time in his career, after the trophy won in 2018, beating the great Lindsay Vonn. “I am very happy, it is my second specialty cup and I think I deserved it very much: in the end, out of five runs, I won four,” she said when the cancellation of the race was announced.

The final classification goes like this: Sofia Goggia first with 480 points, obtained after four wins and a second place. He should have defended the primacy from the assault of Corinne Suter (410 points) and the extraordinary Lara Gut-Behrami, the absolute protagonist of this early 2021 (383 points for the Swiss). She had done her best, Sofia.

And she had returned in record time after the tibial plateau fracture last January 31 in Garmisch. The title is well deserved: if Sutter had won it would have been enough to finish eighth to win the Downhill Cup, if the victory had gone to Gut-Behrami even a 15th place would have allowed her to triumph. It was a result that was well within his reach, even with the risks of such a quick return to the track.

Leaving the gym – where he was doing re-education – and returning to the track was an act of great courage and responsibility. Sofia Goggia wanted to be the arbiter of her own destiny until the end. With the double victory in downhill Sofia has equaled Isolde Kostner, the only other Italian to have won the same specialty ranking twice (2001 and 2002).

Sofia spoke at Rtl 102.5. “I did the impossible to be here, in the finals, 45 days after the injury – he added – I had to play it all the way because, if we had done the race, I would have been happy. Now I will have a week of celebrations and rest – he concluded – from 5 to 25 April I plan to ski for 20 days in order to continue a technical work for the next season ».

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