MILAN (ITALPRESS) – An Olimpiade in the house closed with extraordinary numbers and record records, but above all a season full of satisfaction in the World Cup. La Fisi closed the 2025-2026 season during the usual media day at the Teatro Armani in Milan, a time to celebrate the successes obtained. President Flavio Roda stressed the importance of achieving success in all disciplines in five circles: “All athletes, all our sports, the disciplines have achieved results at the Milan Olympics Cortina 2026. In the past we have always had results, but never in all these disciplines. It has been done an important job on all sports, this rewards the Federation and our world, all our athletes have given the most, we have managed to achieve a result of all. We must work so much on youth activity, at the same time we must try to maintain the excellence we have. I think the task of a Federation is to give maximum support, not neglecting the whole group. All the boys have launched an important message, they are all children engaged in sports and life,” he concluded.
The occasion confirmed the renewal of the partnership with Armani. During the event, Federica Brignone, awarded as athlete Fisi 2025-2026: “It’s always exciting to see the images of the two winning bears, sincerely my path was extremely hard, difficult, terrible, never could I dream of going up on the Olympic podium, it was a gift already being at the Olympics, the more I look at the images the more I wonder how I did”. The blue skier, however, did not unbalance on the immediate future: “I have so much work to do, for my health and my life. Commitments allowing are always in physiotherapy, I am starting with that, it is hard to give continuity. I will try to give time to healing, this is my goal, from today it will still be day by day”.
Space also at the silver medal of Giovanni Franzoni and the bronze of Sofia Goggia: “It was a season full of difficulty, but the claim is “despite the difficulties I managed difficult situations” – said the Bergamasca skier –, Even on February 8 in free descent I was the last one starting in the favourite block, there was the fall of Vonn, a very long wait. At the ski level I could not make mistakes, despite this I think the day was extremely positive, not only for bronze but for how I managed a situation that was extremely complicated.” “You can’t talk about disappointing season, expectations were high, but there were so many things that didn’t go right. I managed to win differently than the past,” he added.
In total, 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 9 bronze medals were won, but the world cups won by Laura Pirovano (discesa), Sofia Goggia (Super-G), the victories of Maurizio Bormolini and Lucia Dalmasso in snowboard were also celebrated. Exciting numbers also regarding the season of total podiums in the respective cups of the world: 24 in alpine skiing, 5 in cross-country skiing, 21 in biathlon, 42 in snowboard, 13 in freestyle, 13 in sledding on artificial track, 3 in the skeleton, one in the bob on artificial track, 29 in sledding natural track, 17 in ski mountaineering and 10 in ski speed. At the end of the event two career awards were awarded to Dorothea Wiererer and Federico Pellegrino who decided to retire at the end of the Milan Olympics Cortina 2026.
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