Sofia Goggia lets a few tears escape when he talks about his injury and the possibility of saying goodbye to the world of alpine skiing. The Italian champion confessed to the microphones of Fis Ski, the international federation of the world of skiing, in which, however, she also spoke about the stages leading up to her return.
Goggia: the relationship with injuries
There career of Sofia Goggia she has been dotted with injuries, many of them throughout her career with the latest one, the one to the tibia, which was particularly painful and complicated to manage from a mental point of view: “I got injured when I was very young and when you’re young you recover well and quickly and I’ve always tried to see it as an opportunity to be a better person and a better athlete”.
Sofia Goggia and the hypotheses of withdrawal
In the during the interview Sofia Goggia he openly revealed that he had also thought about retiring after his last terrible retirement. And a few tears came out just thinking back to those moments: “I have to say that the days after the last tibia injury were very difficult and there were moments when I thought it would be the end. I couldn’t handle this kind of emotions and pain in my soul. It was a very tough period, I thought about retiring. In the first 20 days I saw no future for myself on skis, but I would never be able to have an emotion similar to the one you feel at the starting gate so I will try to keep going as long as possible”.
The return on skis
Difficult moments which now seem to have been put in a drawer. The recovery phase seems to be proceeding in the best possible way and for Sofia Goggia it’s already time to start looking towards the future and returning to skiing: “Now I feel better and I hope to be able to ski again soon, we are going well with the recovery phases and with my physical condition. I think I’ll go back to skiing in July, we’ll go to South America but we don’t have a specific date yet”. And the very hard training sessions that the Italian champion described moment by moment continue, Sofia wanted to share her recovery journey on social media with the latest videos which demonstrate that the leg is perfectly healthy and capable of withstanding the heavy workloads.
