Sofia Goggia scares her fans: ‘Ready to stop a year’

Sofia Goggia scares her fans: "Ready to stop me a year"

Sofia Goggia in an interview with Corriere della Sera told about her difficult recovery after the serious injury suffered last February in Ponte di Legno, when she fractured her tibia and tibial malleolus. The Bergamasque skier wants to return soon, but the pain to deal with è very strong: "I have to figure out how to take it down when I put the boot on. I will experimentò carbon solutions, thin and tailored, to be inserted between the sock and the boot. They are like soccer shin guards and dissipate pressure: I need to find the set up for training in Ushuaia". 

First feelings were not so positive: "The damaged bones for now bear only mild sessions. I never complain: with my knees it would be impossible to ski at a high level, but I am used to it by now. Now è different: the pain is there è. The problem è the sheath of the anterior tibial tendon, severed to put the plate: it has one part attached and one free and è the latter that makes me see stars".

"According to Dr. Panzeri, the pain will not go away and he will have to manage it. I work in the gym and do athletics, but I still can’t run because of the paresthesias that give an altered perception of sensibility".

If things do not improve, Sofia could also decide to skip a season, in view of the 2026 Olympics: "It's the worst case scenario: skip the season, take off the plates in November and work in view of the 2026 Games: è a’hypothesis to be considered. Forò if heò finds the square with shoe and boot everything will go up. Andè thatè what I hope".

Sofia admitted that she was scared when she put the skis back on: "At the first turns I cried under the mask. È the worst injury for the way things were going and for the moment of my career. And the recovery è the hardest.  I had a blackout period in which sì I thought I would never be a top skier again. I suffered terribly from this accident".