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What cycling icon Peter Sagan is to men, Petra Vlhova is to women: the biggest sports star in Slovakia. The 25-year-old is celebrated across the country after winning the great crystal ball. Not surprisingly, as he made history with his World Cup overall victory, no one had ever had it before.
But now dark clouds are gathering. His trainer Livio Magoni shoots poisonous verbal arrows at the “Corriere della Sera”. While the Italian calls his compatriots Bassino, Goggia and Brignone “ski diamonds”, he says of Vlhova: “Compared to them, Petra is an iron.”
“Maybe it’s time to say goodbye”
In fact, Vlhova is often referred to as a machine due to his powerful driving style. But it is also clear that if he skied poorly, he would not be as successful. “He’s very strong,” admits Magoni. “But she has a problem: if something doesn’t fit in her head, you have to intervene. Otherwise, throw everything away. “
Magoni accuses the rest of the private team, in which Vlhova’s father and brother are also involved, of “ignorance”. And how does Vlhova react? She says, “Like a family, each team has its own internal problems.” And he adds: “If we hadn’t done better than our rivals, we would never have won the World Cup in general.”
Will the Magoni-Vlhova duo continue as planned until the 2022 Olympics? “It may be time to say goodbye,” says Magoni. It is quite possible that Vlhova also sees it that way.
Published: 03/27/2021, 1:26 am
Last update: 03/27/2021, 8:22 am
