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Sofia Goggia would have liked to do more for Lindsey Vonn

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Sofia Goggia has not forgotten Lindsey Vonn’s sports drama. Host of Non Stop News, on RTL 102.5, the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, and testimonial of the broadcaster, also dwelt on what happened to the U.S. outfielder and had beautiful words for her.

“Sunday was difficult to manage, even after the injury of Lindsey Vonn, to whom I send all my sincerest wishes for recovery – highlighted the Bergamasque -. First of all, I was so sorry for what happened to her. She started with bib 13, I had bib 15: at the start you could hear the screams, although the third gate, where she then fell, was about 100 meters as the crow flies or a little more. It was not an easy moment to handle, but clearly the sorrow for her goes beyond my difficulty in handling that moment at the start”.

“I heard from her, after the Giant I wanted to stop by and see her, knowing that she was hospitalized in Treviso, but on the same morning of the Giant she managed to catch a plane back to America– added Sofia -I am very happy that she was able to return to her home. It is clear that her injury is very heavy: she had various complications already at the hospital in Treviso. I feel so sorry for her because, although she had won everything during her career, she had come back last year with a view to Milan Cortina 2026 precisely because, in my opinion, she did not accept the way she had ended her career on this slope in 2019, when she could no longer express her potential on skis because physically she was not well”.

Aldo SeghedoniLindsey Vonn, tremendous fall and end of Olympic dream in Cortina: photos

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.

“To know that she was starting out thinking she was going to win, because she has been extremely dominant in the downhill in this World Cup season, and then on the third gate she gets heavily injured, is a big disappointment. In life maybe you give so much for something and then you don&#8221t get it: knowing all the effort she put into it, I feel tremendously sorry for her” Goggia then remarked.

They are all so hard to win.

“It is clear that everyone was perhaps expecting more from me, perhaps myself in the first place, however, it is never obvious to be able to medal at the Olympics – the conclusion of the champion -. I therefore take home this bronze, knowing that I was able to get on the podium in this discipline in the only three editions of the Games in which I participated. I have always been very demanding of myself, at times even unjustifiably hard”.

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