Sofia and the background revealed after the success in Val d’Isere: “I am very close to Gasperini after his years at Atalanta. I gave myself a nice gift”
“Today’s pain will be tomorrow’s fuel, this 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”. Sofia Goggia said it after the super-G in Val d’Isere which gave her her first success of the season, the 27th World Cup of her career. “Yesterday’s match made a big impression on me, it was a very hard day emotionally and I spent an hour crying thinking back to the wasted opportunity – underlines the Bergamo champion of the Fiamme Gialle on Rai microphone -. I came from such solidity and instead yesterday’s mistake made me throw away a golden opportunity. I started from there, from the desire for redemption. As in fact my whole career has been, made up of restarts, from a great desire to go back up: to win today it’s nice and it fits. When you’re on the podium you’re always happy, but winning is what I aspire to. But yesterday’s example is emblematic: a beautiful day, I was skiing great and that’s how it went. Yes, I still have that mistake here, but the important thing is to always have some new arrows in the quiver.”
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Sofia revealed that after reaching the finish line – she started with bib number 6 – she wasn’t sure if her performance would be enough to win. “When I got to the bottom I wasn’t convinced, I skied with a lot of margin in the upper part. But it was enough, let’s bring home this victory and that’s fine. In St. Moritz Lindsey Vonn woke us up and forced us all to raise our level. I’m more interested in starting from that than dwelling on today’s race, where I know I had the margin: today with this victory I gave myself a nice Christmas present, but yesterday I gave it to the others because sometimes I’m generous. When I get there on the podium, Alberto Tomba sends me messages of compliments and writes to me: those little gifts… Now for Christmas, then I’ll be there in Semmering and Kranjska Gora in the giant slalom, in January maybe I’ll focus on speed. We’ll see.”