Flavio Roda: "For Milan-Cortina Flora Tabanelli and Federica Brignone will try"

The president of the Italian Winter Sports Federation Flavio Roda, in the event “Lombardy at the center of the Olympic challenge” in Milan, spoke about the two big blue injured, Flora Tabanelli and Federica Brignone, whose participation in the home Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, is at very high risk. Here are Roda’s words.

“Flora Tabanelli is a phenomenal girl, with great talent, at 17 years old she won the World Cup overall and gold at the World Championships. The’other day in Austria she fell in training, went abundant in a rotation, and now given her age you have to reason. For now we will go ahead with 40 days of therapy, then a decision will be made whether to operate or have her compete in the Olympics”.

“The’infirmary is the norm in our sports– highlights Roda -It is certain that right now we would not want injuries, when approaching an Olympics in one&#8217s own country it is essential to arrive in the best condition but it is not that we can freeze athletes, we have to compete in the coming months, carefully”.

“Federica Brignone’s accident was very serious, but she is recovering. By the end of the month she will try, see how she reacts to the pain. Her fracture was complex, we need to understand how she feels. Knowing her, she will not take any step back, but she has to be in optimal condition. At the Olympics you can”t invent anything.