Sofia Goggia: “It was like dying.”
Sofia Goggia: "È it was like dying"
Sofia Goggia at the Fisi media day è returned to talk about her latest dramatic injury, which forced her to miss almost all of last season. "I confess that è the first time I face a season that starts in a very short time without having done any preparation on skis: è something completely new for me".
"I must say that this injury è has been very heavy, in so many aspects physically, mentally, just also emotionally. I suffered a lot, especially the first months, forò I must say that already since the operation everything è went perfectly. Maybe even better than expected. And I thank the medical team that followed me because they were really top and all the people who also helped me in recovery".
"Then I went skiing this summer, but still I realized that with the plate it was very difficult every curve. Anyway I had little aches and pains here and there; and I still wouldn't go out and tighten a boot. So we chose to take off the synthetic means, the first days of September. And I must say that è it was an incredible breakthrough. Now I feel really good and also mentally I can do some things that before, having the plate I didn’t trust myself to do".
"I will put on skis shortly, toè clearly take advantage of these days, these snowfalls on the glaciers for a very mild first period of adaptation. The plan è to go to America on the 11th of November, do a month there; and will need a detailed program with a perfect progression. And then if all goes well I would like to enter the race in the middle of January, with the first sprint races in Beaver Creek, which l'altro this year are a little bit delayed compared to last year.
The post-injury è was tough as hell: "For two months I said, I am dead. Thatè I, I really when I fell that day I hadn't stopped yet and I was still crawling on the slope and I knew that I didn't have my foot inside the boot anymore. È it was a little bit like dying a little bit, and I thought in the first few months I wasn't going to make it".
"It's as if paradoxically my career unfortunately è been punctuated by so many injuries but è as if I was experiencing for the first real time an injury, as if the others were nothing, from so much I suffered it. Però then slowly things fell into place, things are going in the right direction and anyway now feeling good even my foot, trusting myself mentally, I feel like skiing and I feel like trying again and nothing. The desire to go hard is there'è always anyway regardless of having had so many injuries".
