Sofia Goggia fractured her right tibia and tibial malleolus on February 5 in Ponte di Legno. In recent days she has returned to the Stelvio. But recovery is not easy. She has a great desire to return, but also a lot of pain to deal with. “Holidays? Zero. I did 10 days in May, I will go to the beach for 3 days at the end of July, after having been in Austria for commitments with Red Bull. I will start again at the beginning of August, then until I leave for Argentina on the 19th it will be a ping-pong match with the team, he says today in an interview with Corriere della Sera. The pain “I have to figure out how to reduce it when I put on the boot. As Hannibal said while crossing the Alps, if we can’t find a road, we’ll build one. I’ll experiment with thin, custom-made carbon solutions to insert between the sock and the shoe. They’re like football shin guards and dissipate the pressure: I have to find the facility to train in Ushuaia.
The worst of cases
For now, she is not sure if she feels the right sensations: “It is too early to say, the damaged bones can only support light sessions for now. I never complain: with my knees, it would be impossible to ski at a high level, but I am used to it now. Now it is different: the pain is there. The problem is the sheath of the anterior tibial tendon, cut to fit the plate: it has an attached part and a free part and it is the latter that makes me see stars.” According to the doctors “I should have started skiing again after 6 months. According to Dr. Panzeri, the pain will not go away and I will have to manage it. I work in the gym and do athletics, but I cannot run yet because of paresthesias that give an altered perception of sensitivity. Coach Gianluca Rulfi then revealed the worst case scenario to me.” That is to say: “Skip the season, remove the plates in November and work towards the 2026 Games: it is a hypothesis to consider. But if I find the square with the shoe and the boot, everything will grow. And that is what I hope.”
Fear on skis
He says he was scared when he put on his skis: “From the first turns, I was crying under my mask.” And in the following months, she was afraid of not making it: “I had a blackout period where yes, I thought I would no longer be a top skier. I suffered terribly from this accident.” On the other hand, he occupied his free time by studying: “In one session, I passed 8 political science exams at Luiss: the average for students is 6 per year… I studied in the afternoon and evening, alternating with rehabilitation. Now, I can't stand books anymore: I don't have any summer reading planned, better the mountain bike that I found after the rain and too much mud. Cycling downhill gives you emotions.”
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