John Franzoni has a dream concerning Jannik Sinner.

It&#8217s now become famous the story of the youth alpine skiing competitions in which Jannik Sinner, now No. 2 in world tennis, challenged Giovanni Franzoni, silver medalist in downhill at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. From rivals in the same sport to great champion Azzurri in different disciplines, the two have forged a special relationship in recent times. Both born in 2001, they faced each other on skis several times as children and have known each other for a long time, so much so that after Franzoni’s triumph in Kitzbuehel, the South Tyrolean congratulated him on social media with a message: “Congratulations, champion”.

Andrea Gussoni

Today, from the pages of Il Giorno, it was Franzoni’s turn to send a message to Sinner: “I hope someday to be able to ski with Jannik, he’s the one who has to be up for it. For me it is just an honor, it was a tennis match I should start taking lessons because I am so poor, however in skiing, that one is behind me for sure”.

“The whole season has been something unexpected – the Brescian added in general -I just have to thank the people who have been close to me, from my ski man to the athletic trainer. They worked amazingly, in the end what bothers me a little bit more in not taking the gold is that I know how hard it is to get to an Olympic edition where you can be competiti vi, and when the train goes by you have to get on it any way”.

Meanwhile, statements by Giorgio Rocca, the former ski champion interviewed by Corriere del Ticino, are causing discussion. Many topics were touched upon and not a few considerations capable of opening a debate. “Switzerland – he argued – has a journalism that is totally different from the Italian one: in Italy they fixate on a subject and “hammer away.” We see it today with Jannik Sinner, whom they almost “killed” because in the semifinals of the Australian Open he lost to Djokovic. I repeat, with Djokovic, not with the world number 300”.

“The Italian press also influences the fans a lot, and they get attached and disaffected quickly,” he added. “In Switzerland there is much more sports culture than in Italy’and more respect toward a failure. The Swiss press has less influence on athletes’ performance and is one less disruptive element”.