Sofia Goggia and the injury: the champion’s outburst on Instagram

Nineteen days after the injury that ended her season prematurely, Sofia Goggia returns to speak, to address her fans through her Instagram profile. She does so with a long post full of emotion, at times of pain, and finally of hope. For the first time after the operation the Italian is smiling, with the scar from the double fracture (tibia and malleolus of the right leg) on ​​full display. The post immediately gained a lot of affection.

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These are not words of circumstance, those chosen by the 31-year-old from Bergamo, who for the occasion chose to delve into her deepest feelings. “‘If this is the plan that God has reserved for me, I can’t help but open my arms wide, welcome it and accept it’. This phrase, which I already used before Beijing, is not mine but Elena Fanchini’s: she pronounced it during a interview with her authentic genuineness – which I miss so much! – when she learned of the tumor’s relapse. I was inspired by her, I made her ‘mine’ and that’s what I said to myself when they were transporting me to Milan in helicopter, 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 Olympic downhill champion retraces the phases following the accident that occurred in Ponte di Legno. And he continues: “My dad wrote to me in a message that ‘this pain of mine will not be in vain’ but, even if time tells me that he was right, I currently find it hard to believe it. It’s not a bone that breaks and it’s not the effort, albeit very heavy, of the seventh, complicated, career-long surgery. 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 was drastically reduced… it is the impossibility of just succeeding, which then it’s all for me, to live my passion on skis normally, a passion for which I have worked and for which I have worked assiduously for my entire life. It hurts terribly.”

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“But we need to find the strength and move forward – concludes the Italian -. 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. And dear dad.. even if in my heart I seem to be still lying on that slope 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 too This year the dream was interrupted, I promise you that I will do my best to ensure that this terrible pain will not be in vain. I promise it to my father. And I promise it to all of you. ❤️🔥”.