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Federica Brignone has hope for the giant.

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After the extraordinary gold medal she won in the super-G at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, Federica Brignone is preparing for the giant slalom, the penultimate event in women’s skiing on the Cortina slope, scheduled for Sunday, February 15. “After the victory in the super giant it was two emotionally beautiful but tough days – she admitted -, in which people made me feel all their affection. Now I am settling back into the Olympic atmosphere, I hope to live the next race with the same tranquility with which I experienced super-giant and downhill”.

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Federica Brignone wins her first Olympic gold medal with an extraordinary performance.
"It's something incredible, I never thought I would win" declares the champion excited.

The skier called herself an'outsider but tried to make the fastest lines possible.
"I feel the'adrenaline running through my veins and it is a very strong emotion" tells Brignone.
A record recovery after the terrible injury on April 3 at the Italian championships.

Multifragmentary compound fracture of the tibial plateau and the head of the fibula of the left leg.
The'injury had also involved the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
La Tigre di La Salle completes an'extraordinary feat by returning to the world summit.
Brignone is a member of the Carabinieri Sports Center.
This is the fourth Olympic medal of the career for the champion from Valle d’Aosta.
In 2018 she had won the Olympic bronze medal in her first experience at five circles.
In 2022 she had achieved Olympic silver in giant and silver in combined.
Now she can finally boast the title of Olympic champion with this historic gold. And Mattarella also rejoices with her.

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“I arrived in Cortina with few certainties and just as little training, without the days of work I would have liked to put into my legs, but in this period I am used to experiencing situations like this – added the champion from Valle d’Aosta -. I have to do the maximum with what I have, it will be 3′ or so of performance, what I want to do is to take advantage of my experience and technical ability. Physically I feel good, I do not have big deficits and some pain is always there, however I feel better than last week”.

“I hope the mental attitude will remain the same as the past few days. Since Kronplatz I have only done three days of giant slalom and not even full, I hope there will be spring snow. Today in the last practice was very aggressive, I am trying to recover some energy, I must continue to remain calm”.

“I want to thank the people who sent me so many messages, I was also especially pleased with the compliments from former female skiers like Nicole Hosp and Dominique Gisin, they conveyed their happiness to me, telling me that I did something incredible”.

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