Sofia Goggia, a monologue that touched everyone

Sofia Goggia, a monologue that touched everyone

Olympic ski champion Sofia Goggia’s monologue aired on “Le Iene” touched everyone and was very emotional.

“If I had been asked as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have answered: a ski champion,” the Bergamasque star recounted. I put them on my feet for the first time when I was four years old, and for the first time I felt good at something.

Nicola, my first teacher, understood right away that those two wooden planks could take me far. We started from a small ski resort in the Orobian Alps, few slopes, short runs, endless chairlifts. You need a lot of things to make it, and we, at the time, thought we had none. Then I realized that, in fact, we had everything.

We had a vision, a dream. And a dream, in a society that no longer wants you to dream, can make a revolution. But the dream is not enough: because in order to pursue it, you also have to have another thing, courage. It is courage that makes you take that risk. It’s like on skis: to make a perfect turn, you have to launch your body to the maximum slope, into the void. And to launch yourself into the void you need courage.

In the void you discover that courage has another face, fear. Fear you must not crush it, remove it, because if you remove fear you are not courageous, you are just unconscious, and you will get hurt. You must have the courage to be afraid, to embrace it, feeling it in every fiber of your body, and it too will help you achieve your goal.

I don’t have much to teach you, but this much: courage, which we sometimes lack, is all we need. Courage is what led me to be who I am.

Be courageous.”