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Sofia Goggia makes it three for three in downhill but doesn’t hide disappointment

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Sofia Goggia took the bronze medal in the downhill on the Tofane Olympia of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. For the champion from Bergamo, who placed behind Breezy Johnson and Emma Aicher, it is the third consecutive Olympic medal in downhill after gold in PyeongChang in 2018 and silver in Beijing in 2022.

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Lindsey Vonn falls after very few seconds in the downhill on the Tofane Olympia at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Thus ends the attempt to rewrite history by the champion. Astonished audience.
The race is immediately stopped after the fall of the American champion.
She closes in tears the dream of winning an Olympic medal at 41 years old.

Vonn aimed to overtake compatriot Breezy Johnson, in the lead up to that point.
Started with bib 13, she chooses a very high line at the'entrance of the first crossbar.
He hits a goal with his right shoulder, loses his balance and falls ruinously.

The'impact takes place on the'Olympia of the Tofane, a track where he had already triumphed twelve times in his career.
The screams of pain of the champion break the silence of Cortina.

In previous days she had revealed the complete rupture of the cruciate ligament in Crans Montana.
The'injury had occurred in the'last World Cup race before the Olympics.
The first responders arrive immediately on the track after the fall.
Vonn is immobilized and loaded onto the toboggan by rescuers.
The'helicopter transports away the American champion from the Tofane.

“It was just the’last color I was missing even though I would have preferred to repeat that of the first edition – admitted l’Azzurra to the microphones of Rai Sport at the end of the race -. I’m a little sorry because at the Schuss I jumped so much, all very lateral, I arrived at the Duca d’Aosta just that I felt that I was not going on”.

“Then clearly that wait was not easy to manage, although, I have to tell the truth, I remained very concentrated and focused on what I had to do – added Sofia -. Yesterday I had nightmares of the first cross, which instead today came out very well, and always along the lines of yesterday I made a little mistake there on the Schuss of the Tofane”.

“It&#8220s a pity, but still you always have to take a somewhat’ general view among all the Olympics: three medals in this discipline” concluded Goggia, who will return to competition on Tuesday, February 10 in the women&#8221 team combined.

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