Sofia Goggia explains her redemption: c'enter Gian Piero Gasperini
After Saturday’s disappointing downhill, Sofia Goggia redeemed herself in the SuperG in Val d’Isere by taking her first World Cup victory of the season. “Today’s pain will be tomorrow’s fuel is the message we exchanged yesterday with Gian Piero Gasperini, Roma coach to whom I remain very close after his experience in Bergamo with Atalanta– she recounted -. Yesterday’s race marked me so much, it was a very hard day emotionally and I spent an hour crying thinking back to the wasted opportunity”.
“I was coming from so much solidity and instead yesterday’s mistake made me throw away a golden opportunity – added l’Azzurra -. I started from there, from the desire for redemption. As in fact has been my whole career, made up of restarts, of so much desire to rise again: winning today is nice and it fits. When you are on the podium you are always happy, winning is what I aspire to though. But yesterday’s example is emblematic: beautiful day, I was skiing great and it went like this. Yes, that mistake I still have it here, but the important thing is to always have some new arrow in the quiver”.
“When I got to the bottom I was not convinced, I skied with a lot of margin at the top. But it was enough, we bring home this win and that is okay. In St. Moritz Lindsey Vonn gave us a wake-up call and forced us all to raise the level. I would like to start more from that than so much to dwell on today’s race, where I know I had margin: today with this victory I gave myself a nice Christmas present, yesterday I gave it to the others because sometimes I am generous. Now Christmas, in Semmering and Kranjska Gora I will be there in giant, in January maybe I will concentrate on speed we will see”.
The success on the French slope brings Goggia in Robinson’s wake in the specialty ranking after the two races held: 180 to 160, with Vonn third at 110. Sofia also climbs to third place in the overall standings with 372 points: ahead of her is Robinson herself (484) and especially Mikaela Shiffrin, first with 558.
At the foot of the podium is Elena Curtoni, who finished in fourth place: “I’m actually a bit nervous. I knew I could do well on a track I like and on a track that suits me. I can still improve, I found wind in the middle part: I got to the bottom and seeing the gap I knew someone would fit in. It makes me feel calm that I am always close to the first ones, especially in super-G. It gives me confidence, I know I will also grow in the downhill”.
