Sofia Goggia
breaks the silence.
After being discharged on 9 February from the La Madonnina clinic in Milan, where she had undergone surgery to reduce the displaced multi-fragmentary fracture of the right tibial pilon, suffered during training in Ponte di Legno, she wrote a long message on her social profiles, accompanying it with a photo in which the scar resulting from the surgical operation is clearly visible.
The champion mentions her teammate, Elena Fanchini, who passed away just over a year ago.
“If this is the plan that God has reserved for me, I cannot 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 pronounced it during an interview with his authentic genuineness - which I miss so much! - when he learned of the tumor's relapse.
I was inspired by her, I made her mine.
My dad - she continues - she 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.
What hurts, really hurts, is that tear that I feel inside my chest, a tear that only I can feel rooted deep within me, the result of being face to face with myself for the umpteenth time 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.
Finally the athlete makes a promise to his father: “I promise you that I will do everything I can 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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