CORTINA (ITALPRESS) – Italy wins fifth gold at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. On the Olympia delle Tofane Federica Brignone triumphs in the super-G female. The 35-year-old Valdostana, under the eyes of the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, closed his test in 1’23′′41 and is ahead of 41 cents to the French Romane Miradoli, with the Austrian Cornelia Huetter third to 0′′′52. Among the first ten Laura Pirovano and Elena Curtoni also left after the first two intermediates Sofia Goggia.
Winner of the last World Cup and protagonist of a record recovery after the terrible injury of last April to the Italian championships (multi-fragmentary mismatch of the tibial plate and the head of the pinion of the left leg and breaking of the front cruciate ligament), the Tiger of La Salle, carded for the Centro Sportivo Carabinieri, conquered his fourth Olympic medal, the first gold, after bronze (2018) giant and silver). Italy rises at 14 (5-2-7) in the medallion.
The president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella dropped on the arrival of the female SuperG track where he greeted and complimented Federica Brignone for the conquest of Olympic gold. The Head of State then greeted the public who acclaimed him: “President you are a great”, “Thank you President”, “Bravo President” among the shouts addressed to Mattarella. I was counting on it,” said Mattarella to the champion Valdostana, who smiled “I not so much”. And above Cortina fly the Tricolored Brakes of the National Acrobatic Patrol opening the season.
“I’m speechless, I don’t really know what to say. I tried to let the skis go, I had the SuperG in my head, I didn’t want to be perfect, but to stay in the rhythm, I didn’t think I won the gold. I came down, I said ‘I did a good job’ but I didn’t think so. I don’t believe it either.” He told the microphones of HBO Max Federica Brignone, gold medal in the SuperG at the Milan Olympics Cortina 2026. “I have nothing to add, I have seen my family crying, now I have some experience, I know very well where I am and what I am doing, when I go in the middle of my team I will move a lot”
BUONFIGLIO “BRIGNONE HA DIMOSTRATO COME SAPER REAGIRE”
“It is an honor to be here next to athletes and athletes who are making us proud. Brignone’s choice as a flag holder? The Olympics are not only winning medals, but also winning adversities. That’s why I thought about Federica, all of us in life experience suffering and adversity, it has shown how to react. Behind her is everything, I must say, it is one of the few times when I moved”. Thus in Raisport the president of the Coni Luciano Buonfiglio comments the gold of Federica Brignone.
LA MAMMA DI FEDERICA BRIGNONE “CREDEVO NEL RITORNO, MA MAI VINCERE ORO IN SUPERG”
“I thought it would come back, but winning the gold in Super-G… is too good, I’m sick. There was no Olympic gold, now there is no shortage. Thanks to all those who were close to us, with gifts, with words, with affection. What will change? Nothing, we will continue to say “good when she’s good”, “you’re wrong” when she does. So Maria Rosa Quario, former blue skier and mother of Federica Brignone.
LE PAROLE DELLE ALTRE AZZURRE
“I wanted to give some edge but on this snow it was not possible – said in the mixed area Laura Pirovano – The budget remains however positive, could go better but also much worse. I am as a whole as I have faced it, although I had a strange feeling because the snow has changed compared to the descent.” The head of the super-G is Federica Brignone: “It is fantastic, very good and has been dissolved and very precise. Even when the obstacles seem bigger than she faces them as if they did not exist,” she says.
“I skied as I can do, I certainly knew that you had to be careful about the passage of Scarpadon, the risk is that if I had gone too far left I would not have managed to recover it, it was a quick piece, I had a narrower line.” So Sofia Goggia. “I skied very hard, I didn’t expect to be ahead of 7 tenths in the first part, but the races must be brought to the bottom, it’s as if I hadn’t participated. At the Olympics you must always give 100%, I put it on track today, I take away as I skied to that point, departed from there with the next”. “Honour at Federica (Brignone, ndr) who had no easy approach to the Games. It is good to see an Italian win in Cortina, we knew that it could do very well because the snow was very much in its ropes. Today was an important day for Italy. Mattarella arrived in Cortina and three hours arrived, we hope to stay here”, adds Goggia laughing on the three edges conquered by Italy in Cortina after the arrival of Mattarella in yesterday’s day in the Ampezzo resort. “I brought home an extremely difficult bronze and I am so sorry for today’s superG”, the Bergamo budget.
“It was a tactical track, where I can usually exalt and have fun. I was upset at the start, but I put my heart on it. There is some regret, but that’s all right.” These words, in a mixed area, by Elena Curtoni after the seventh place in the superG of Cortina d’Ampezzo. “It’s a champion, I know what it takes to get back from injuries and I had no doubt that it would go strong. I saw it loaded,” continues Curtoni on Brignone. Seasonal final all to write for the 35-year-old Morbegno, who does not unbalance on his future: “There is still the whole season ahead with so many superGs and many descents, then at the end of the season you will see.”.
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