La Salle’s tiger waited to venture gold in specialties for 14 years, from that challenge with Tina Maze to Garmisch-Potenkirchen, lost by nothing and ended with silver
When an athlete not properly teenager earns the covers for a sporty victory, the race of the most original questions at the press conference is triggered. Even if you often end up placing a chopped and found. They also did it with Federica Brignone. What a no, it is not a teenager: 35 years next July. And therefore the fateful question touched to her too, in the past: “But what is your secret?”. Dry answer: “Sometimes I ask myself questions”. The charge of the tiger whose image to the helmet brings, the awareness of having made a lot, the feeling of being able to do even more. Inquiry in equal measure that the wrestler, the blue will be asked before the world appointment in Saalbach: is the gold in the giant still within reach? He was answered by himself: first Italian to win in specialty 28 years after Deborah Compagnoni. Gold in his giant, the one that had left her with a bitterness in the mouth for a whisker, in 2011. That, sportingly speaking, is a geological era. In 14 years, champions gone gone. But tiger Federica has always remained in search of the most coveted prey.