PLAN DE CORONES (ITALPRESS) – Just another step to see if the Milan-Cortina Olimpiade is a bit closer. 292 days from the bad accident in Val di Fassa, Federica Brignone returns to the race. He will do it tomorrow, in the World Cup giant at Kronplatz, an almost desperate finish until a few weeks ago. “It’s really great for me to be competing here tomorrow, on a track that I always liked, in Italy – confesses on the eve of the 35-year-old Valdostana – I’m here to test my head, my mind, my body and my leg. I did not come to make a great result but for myself, being in the race tomorrow is already a great success”.
After winning his second World Cup, the Tiger of La Salle decided last April, as always, to take part in the Italian championships on Alpe Lusia but the fall in the second heat of the giant had cost her very dear: multifragmented fracture of the tibial plate and the head of the peron of the left leg and breaking of the front cruciate ligament. Operated a few hours later at the clinic “La Madonnina” in Milan, Fede immediately started his race against the time with view Games but today say whether there will be or not “it is still difficult, I think that no athlete can say that he will participate in the Olympics until he puts the sticks out”.
“It can happen of everything, it’s something you can’t know – he continues – I don’t know today. In December I put the skis back on tourism but doing the athlete is another thing and when I put the giant skis it was a disaster at the beginning. Then I tried again in mid-December and started seeing some light.”.
For the two-time winner of the Alpine Ski World Cup was tough. “The most difficult thing these months was not to have time, deadline, security to return to normal life. Every day there was a time when I said “I can’t do it”. There have been darker moments and easy times I haven’t lived yet. The thing that makes me more afraid is that something doesn’t work inside my leg or something doesn’t hold in the right way since I still have the whole “stop” there. If tomorrow I see that something doesn’t work I can always stop – it still tells the Valdostana – The technique, the control I have on the skis make me feel quite sure, I’m one who knows exactly where it is and what it is doing in every cent and this is gold for me, in my wake I always have everything under control and this gives me great confidence. Let’s see tomorrow how the race goes, then I’ll train in Cortina on speed: among the things that helped me there is the fact of going by step, working on those things that I could control, achieving daily and weekly goals.”.
No long-term programs in short, also because “I haven’t had a day without pain since I was injured, even in my normal life. I’m fine, if I’m not too bad, I trust myself enough: the giant is what gets me better but where I hurt more while on speed I did little even if there are less bad. Every day is a test for me and tomorrow’s race is another test to see how it goes in two heats three hours away from each other.”.
The desire to compete does not miss “but in these nine and a half months the program has been made daily, at the most weekly and we will continue like this, we can not do otherwise”. Returning to the competition before the Olympics “is not a conservative choice but very difficult. But I have a lifestyle and principles for which I prefer to live and fail that I do not live for fear of failing, I prefer to live and wrong but try not to act for fear of not succeeding – La Salle’s outclass insists – If I am here is to do the race, to put me in play, I do not have a goal of result or performance but to see how my physical, my leg reacts. Let’s see moment by moment, from here on the program is to go back to Cortina to train, if I want to do other races before the Olympics I will do them, idem for the Olympics and the post-Olimpiadi. If I’m okay, I want to race. I don’t have to prove anything, I’m quiet.” What will be, will be: Milan-Cortina is at the door and Faith does not want regrets.
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