Not only did he decide to participate, he won.
Sofia Goggia never ceases to amaze and triumphs in the St. Moritz downhill with a broken hand .
In yesterday's descent, in which she finished second behind Elena Curtoni, the skier from Bergamo made everyone tremble at the finish: "I broke my hand," she said.
She hurried back to Italy, operated on the compound fracture of the second and third metacarpal of her left hand and was back on the Swiss track this morning .
With screws and plates, she came down with bib number 9 and transformed what for many seemed like madness into a feat. One of her many unforgettable races, even if she assures: «It was more difficult in Beijing» , referring to the feat of the last Olympics, a silver medal less than a month after the partial injury of the cruciate ligament with a mini fracture of the fibula.
Sofia uncatchable, finished in 1'28''85, with 43 cents ahead of Ilka Stuhec and 52 over Kira Weidle, fourth is Mikaela Shiffrin .
Goggia thus obtained her twentieth success in the World Cup , tying Federica Brignone at the top of the ranking of the multiple Italian winners.
The blue dominates the downhill classification with 380 points, +160 on the second Corinne Suter. In the general one she is second with 425 points, 50 less than Mikaela Shiffrin.
(Unioneonline/L)
