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Suddenly the darkness of pain and a severe verdict: Sofia Goggia will not be able to participate in the World Cup that will start in a week in Cortina and will not even complete the season of the World cup. At Garmisch, in an absurd accident to say the least, he suffered blunt trauma to his right knee with a compound fracture of the lateral tibial plateau. Sofia will immediately start the rehabilitation period: recovery times have not yet been set, but we are talking about 2-3 months.
Unfortunately, the most daring thing imaginable happened: the Italian champion did not fall in the race, but when he returned to the valley after the cancellation of the test in the Kandahar 1 of Garmisch. The super-G had been rescheduled for Monday (10.50am, Raisport and Eurosport) due to fog and the athletes were descending upon arrival. There Goggia She was betrayed by an icy bundle, combined with fresh snow, on a bend in the service track, a tourist track that ends at the team minibus parking lot – her right knee was twisted and then she fell, flipping several times and losing his helmet. . I was alone and was almost there.
I was dominating downhill
Petra vlhova He saw her – in fact it was her coach, the Italian Livio Magoni, who broke the news of the accident – and gave her first aid, waiting for help. The specialized personnel placed the blue champion on a slide and transported her to the flower bed. Fisi’s doctors preferred not to visit her at the hospital in Garmisch. Sofia was thus loaded into a car bound for Milan: but then she arrived in Innsbruck and boarded a helicopter that took her to Linate. Shortly after 8 pm he entered the clinic The Madonnina, accompanied by doctors Herbert Schoenhuber me Andrea Panzeri from the Fisi Medical Commission, for an MRI and CT scan of the knee.
The verdict was somewhat better than feared (it was thought that the ligaments were affected), because of the blow he stays and hits Sofía in the umpteenth restart. In fact, his career was littered with stops from which he was able to bravely recover: in 2010 (knee ligament tear in two stages); in 2012 (stretching of the ligaments of both knees, with tibial plateau fracture); in 2013 (he skipped his left knee, a few months after the revelation of fourth place in the world super-G in Schladming; due to the aftermath of that injury and a second operation, he did not compete in the Sochi Games); in autumn 2018 (fracture of the right peronal malleolus); in January 2020 in the Garmisch super-G (split left radius fracture and end of season).
The Kandahar 1 tied hand in hand with his destiny, for better or for worse. It was there, in January 2019, that Sofía took the podium after her fibula injury; that result would have been the viaticum for the incredible silver in super-G at the Aare World Championships. But the same track, as mentioned, a year ago was fatal and now the balance of Garmisch damn negative.
After months of a difficult recovery, even on a human level, the Italian champion was back in shape and so far, with four wins and a second place, dominated the descent and had the specialty cup. But now that it’s stopped, it’s hard to protect it. The race to win, however, now another, between care and sacrifices: to come back very strong. I’ll try for sure, but this anomalous trot, which took place away from the eyes of cameras and witnesses, was not necessary.
Jan 31, 2021 (change Jan 31, 2021 | 23:05)
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