Not being able to fulfill the dream of running the World Cup at home as a protagonist "is terrible".
A few hours after the first rays of sunshine that should allow Cortina 2021 to finally get underway after two days of forced stop due to bad weather, Sofia Goggia tells her sports drama live online with the press.
A long interview in which the unfortunate Italian, injured by a trivial accident on skis on the sidelines of the Super G Garmisch race, one week before the world championship, first thanks the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for calling her and then lets herself go to tears while answering questions from reporters.
"A week ago - says the Italian ski Olympian - I was called by the President of the Republic Mattarella and given the situation in the Italian country that is not idyllic, I was very pleased with this call".
Watching others on TV will not be easy for those who were ready to be one of the stars of Cortina 2021.
"It was a very hard blow. I prefer to concentrate on what I can do, but when I get up in the morning I find it hard not to think about it - explained the blue skier, who was absent from the Cortina World Championships -. Even if you don't accept them, you are forced to Do it; next year there are the Olympics, it will be the event of the year. For an athlete to be able to play the World Championships at home is a huge dream and it is terrible not to be able to run because I fell on the rotten snow with the backpack on my shoulders: it is difficult to accept "Sofia Goggia's emotion and tears tell all the inner suffering of the champion for what could be and was not.
"I'm sorry for crying - the blue apologizes at the end - It is terrible not to be able to participate. Then I am aware that in life there are much more serious and important things but for what is the sphere and the perimeter of a athlete and as I am it is very difficult to accept it. I sincerely thank my companions, they were almost all at the hotel reception hugging me (after the injury, ed). They suffered with me. Thank you for how they supported me. The timing of this injury - he concludes it's very bad, it's very difficult, but we go on. Unfortunately they haven't invented the time machine yet, I would change many things "