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the 2020 of the Italian ski , already historic thanks to the success of Federica Brignone in World cup, celebrates Sofia Goggia’s welcome return to the highest levels.
The champion of Bergamo has won the free descent in Val d’Isere, the second of the season, 24 hours after the first in which, still on the track of the “Oreiller-Kelly”, Goggia had achieved an encouraging second place behind the Swiss Corinne Suter and ahead of the American Breezy Johnson.
A day later the protagonists of the podium are the same, but with mixed positions and the Swiss and the American, separated by 24 and 29 cents respectively and forced to surrender to Sofia’s return to success, thus closing the accounts with a full year. bad luck. The fourth was Norwegian Lie, which was up to two-thirds of the way up.
Goggia had not won in a year, since the Super-G in Dec 14, 2019 in St. Moritz, while the last joy of the descent dates back to February 23, 2019 in Crans Montana.
This is the eighth success of the Italian’s career in the World Cup, allowing her to face Karen Putzer. Ahead of the all-time ranking of Italian skiers there are only Deborah Compagnoni with 16, Isolde Kostner and Federica Brignone with 15.
Brignone herself, on the other hand, chose not to take the start as a precautionary measure due to a sore shin as a result of going off the track late in Saturday’s race.
Therefore, thanks to this victory, Sofia hopes to be able to leave behind a very negative period, which began with malleolus fracture in October 2018 forcing her to miss the first part of the season. Then, after silver in the Super-G in the Are World Championship, in February 2020 a new injury, the displaced fracture of left radius in the Garmisch super-G, resulting in an operation.
OMNISPORT | 12-19-2020 12:33
