Sofia Goggia moves by quoting Elena Fanchini and makes a promise
Sofia Goggia moves by quoting Elena Fanchini
Sofia Goggia sends a moving message: "'If this è the plan that God has reserved for me, I can do nothing but open my arms wide, welcome it and accept it'. This phrase, which I already used before Beijing, is not mine but Elena Fanchini’s: she uttered it during an interview with her authentic genuineness – which I miss so much – when she learned of the tumor relapse,&#quot; writes the Bergamasque.
"I was inspired by Her, I made her “mine” and è what I told myself when I was being transported to Milan by helicopter, with the firm knowledge that that very unpleasant feeling I had had on the track, when I had not yet stopped from falling, was true: my tibia was broken and shattered. My dadà texted me that “this pain of mine will not be in vain” but, although later time will tell me that he was right, I currently find it hard to believe. Not è a bone breaking and not è the fatigue, albeit very heavy, of the seventh, complicated, career surgery".
"What hurts, really hurts, è that tear that I feel inside my chest, tear that only I can feel rooted in my depths, child of being for the umpteenth time face to face with myself in such a situation despite the efforts, commitment and work choices so that the possibility that this kind of events could happen, would be drastically reduced".
"… è the’impossibilityà of just being able, which then for me è everything, to live my passion on skis normally, a passion that I have worked for and worked assiduously for my whole life. It hurts like hell. But you have to find the strength and move on. Elly was right: as hard as it is to accept this situation, I cannot do otherwise; the meaning maybe will come; then. È “just” one more test;: very hard, tough, but one more. And dear dadà…even though in my heart I feel like I am lying still on that slope in Ponte dreading the moment when I will have to cross the eyes of my coach, skiman and trainer to tell him that this year too the Dream will è be interrupted, I promise you that I will try my best to make sure that this terrible pain will not be in vain. I promise this to my father. And I promise it to all of you".
