Sofia Goggia is strong, courageous and determined, but the injury she suffered wasn’t a walk in the park at all and rehabilitation, unfortunately, is no different. The champion is struck down by pain that is not just physical. And that’s perhaps why she needs to tell how he feels and what his mood is in such a difficult time.
Sofia Goggia: destroyed by the injury, but always determined
The blue girl entrusts her thoughts to a long post on Instagram: she talks about God, the passing of her dear friend Elena Fanchini and makes a promise to her father: «This pain will not be in vain». The skier’s words are intense and full of suffering, but not only that, because you can also feel that the dejected spirit joins the strong one of the Olympic downhill champion in 2018, the winner of four downhill World Cups and two world medals.
The tibia shattered like the heart
«If this is the plan God has for meI can’t do anything other than open my arms wide, welcome it and accept it – writes Goggia – This phrase, which I already used before Beijing, is not mine but Elena Fanchini’s: she uttered it during an interview with her authentic genuineness – which I loved so much missing! – when he learned of the tumor’s recurrence.
I was inspired by her, I made her “mine” and that’s what I told myself when they were transporting me to Milan by helicopteror, with the firm awareness that that very unpleasant sensation I had on the track, when I still hadn’t stopped from the fall, was true: my tibia was broken and shattered”.
The image of the skier published by her on Instagram next to a long post where she talks about it (@Instagram)
A still bitter smile
In the image accompanying the post you can see that tibia and the wound sutured with dozens of stitches: in the photo the skier lying on the grass is smiling, but next to her the crutches are spread out to remember all too well how frightening the accident was. «My dad wrote to me in a message that “this pain of mine will not be in vain” – continues the skier – but, even if time will tell me that he was right, I currently struggle to believe it. It’s not a bone that breaks and it’s not the effort, albeit very heavy, of the seventh, complicated, surgery of your career.”
You can’t see what hurts
What hurts, really hurts, is that laceration I feel inside my chest, a tear that only I can feel rooted in my depths, the result of the fact of being for the umpteenth time face to face with myself in such a situation despite the efforts, commitment and work choices, so that the possibility that this type of event could happen, it would be drastically reduced. It’s the impossibility of simply managing, which is everything for me, to live my passion on skis normally, passion for which I have worked and for which I have worked assiduously for my entire life. It hurts terribly.”
But Sofia Goggia doesn’t give up
But we need to find the strength and move forward and Goggia knows it and says it: «Elly was right: as hard as it is to accept this situation, I can’t do otherwise; perhaps the meaning will come later. It’s “just” one more test: very difficult, tough, but one more».
The post ends with a promise, obviously to her father, but which is indirectly addressed to all those who are rooting for her: «Dear father… even if in my heart I seem to be still lying on that track in Ponte fearing the moment in which I will have to meet the eyes of my coach, skiman and trainer to tell him that this year too the Dream has been interrupted, I promise you that I will do my best to ensure that this terrible pain will not be in vain. I promise my father. And I promise it to all of you.”
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