Federica Brignone: "It' was terrible, I still wonder how I did"

Federica Brignone spoke about her Olympic triumphs at the Italian Winter Sports Federation’s Media Day held in Milan: “It’s always exciting to see the pictures and I don’t do it often.”

“Honestly, my path was hard, difficult and terrible even and never could I have dreamed of standing twice on an Olympic podium, for me it was already a gift to be there, to be back on skis, and to be at the Olympics, and the more I look at the pictures the more I wonder how I did it, they are great memories. They are incredible emotions, someone said before that it was really a privilege to run the Olympics at home, because they are a big stress, they are so much pressure, they are something really strong, so when you succeed in something so difficult, it becomes an even bigger pride.”

“Now I have so much more work to do, not only to get back on the track, but for my personal life and health. Commitments permitting it’s hard to give continuity like I managed last summer, I’m always in physical therapy. It’s hard and I try to give time to healing and physical therapy, that’s my goal. It will be day by day again, it’s bad not to have definite plans, it’s very tough mentally but at least in this round I don’t have crutches and I can walk on my own.”

“As for the future, the problem will be the physical one, but mentally it’s always been hard to have so many races on weekends, and keep changing disciplines, and travel, but now for me it will be a different matter.”