Sofia Goggia wins the Free Descent of Cortina
Sofia Goggia spectacular: take risks, make mistakes and still triumph in the Free Descent from Cortina confirming itself as the number one of the specialty a few weeks (appointment on February 15th) from the beginning of Beijing Olympics where he dreams of winning the gold medal as it happened February 21, 2018 on the snows of Jeongseon in South Korea to the PyeongChang Games. Meanwhile onOlympia, the track that descends from the Tofane and that today saw the athletes start lower down (area of the Duca d’Aosta refuge) due to the strong wind at high altitude, Sofia Goggia she was the fastest despite having first risked crashing and then missed the ideal line.
Goggia wins in front of Siebenhofer and Ledecka
With this success theItaly of alpine skiing celebrates its 300 overall victories in the World Cup (191 among men and 109 among women). Behind the financier Goggia, who in Cortina had already won in downhill on 19 January 2018, the Austrian Ramona Siebenhofer, second at 20 cents and which won in 2019 in the two descents in Cortina, and the Czech one Ester Ledecka by 26 cents on the first podium this season and just over a month ago victorious on the Ampezzo snow in the Snowboard World Cup.
Brignone closes 19th due to a mistake, Elena Curtoni and Nicol Delago in the top-15 in the Cortina Descent
Four Italians in the top 20, but out of the top 10. Elena Curtoni e Nicol Delago (14th tied), Federica Brignone (19th due to an error that made her lose many positions) and Nadia DeLago (20th). Instead, they close out of the points area Francesca Marsaglia (37th) e Marta Bassino (40th), while Roberta Melesi did not complete the race.
Sofia Goggia: “I took a risk, I made extravagant lines”
“I took a risk, did some extravagant lines and got my best victory in the World Cup: it’s a very important personal victory, I don’t even know how I managed to win – he said beaming. Sofia Goggia in the post-race -. Winning one week after the fall of Zauchensee was something incredible. It was a difficult race with a low start and strong gusts of wind. When after crossing the finish line I realized that I was first, my heart exploded. So many have written to me and it was incredible to receive this affection, four years ago I was still in its infancy, today I felt all the affection of the fans “.
Sofia Goggia closer to Shiffrin and Vlhova in the general classification
In the ranking of Descent, Goggia she is more and more alone in the lead with 400 points (4 victories) with over one hundred points on Siebenhofer (284) and on the American, absent today, Breezy Johnson (240). Overall, Sofia is third with 769 points behind the American Mikaela Shiffrin with 966 and the Slovak Petra Vlhova (929).
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