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Sofia Goggia celebrates comeback with big podium finish

Sofia Goggia on the podium
After 318 days away from the slopes, Sofia Goggia is back on track and relishing the joy of the podium in the women’s downhill in Beaver Creek. The 32-year-old champion from Bergamo, who got a fractured tibia and right tibial malleolus in training last February 5, confirmed once again her strength of character that has enabled her so many times during her career to overcome bad injuries.
This time, after a small scare that occurred to her after a tenth of a second when she took a dangerous low-speed edge, she unleashed her horses meter after meter. Overcoming the dreaded first technical part of the track that had bothered her in the trial days, she gradually accelerated on the long bends of the Birds of Prey, finishing at the finish line with a time of 1’32″54 with one’more imperfection in the final part, which caused her to lose precious hundredths. In the end, better than her did only Cornelia Huetter, holder of the specialty cup, who preceded her somewhat surprisingly by 16 hundredths, while Lara Gut completed the podium 34 hundredths behind the winner.
For Goggia it is podium number 55 of her career, but above all an incredible confidence boost that erases in one fell swoop all the fears of the last months, now it is only a matter of recovering the full form, which will come with the next scheduled appointments on the European snows. Three other azzurre finished the race in the top-10: an excellent Marta Bassino collected seventh position, three tenths from the podium, while Federica Brignone è finished ninth and Laura Pirovano eleventh.
Also positive was Roberta Melesi, 18th and at the milgiore placing ever in the specialty, while Elena Curtoni broke the ice. The Valtellinese, returning a year after her bad fall in Sankt Moritz, did not logically force her hand and 24th place è a starting point. Just behind Nadia Delago, 27th, while Sara Thaler, Nadia Delago and Vicky Bernardi finished outside the 30. The overall ranking sees Camille Rast in the lead with 287 points against the 245 of the injured Mikaela Shiffrin, third è the Croatian Zrink Ljutic with 202. On Sunday, December 15, it is back on track with the first super-giant of the year at 7 p.m. Italian time.
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Milan, Tammy Abraham sheds light on her future
Tammy Abraham punished Inter again in the derby first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal. After the decisive goal in Riyad with which he gave the Super Cup to the Rossoneri, the English striker found the goal of the momentary lead with the Nerazzurri, who tied the score with Calhanoglu.
“I am really happy for the goal for me and for the team– Abraham said in the press conference. “Then we didn’t win, so we are not happy and we have to fight for the next game, being positive, knowing that we are a good team”.
Then the’ex-Roma spoke about his future: “I do not know my future now. Milan is a great club, very passionate. I want to fight until the end for this club. Staying does not depend only on me”.
“It is a difficult season for everyone. We have other games though, every game is a final. There are always ups and downs. I would have liked to score more but the season is not over. There are 11 games to fight for. We want to play in Europe. We want to try to win the Italian Cup” Abraham concluded.
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Lewis Hamilton, disqualification behind: “Immediately looked ahead”
Lewis Hamilton spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Japanese Grand Prix, scheduled for the weekend. “I heard some people say some nonsense – he began – like I would be losing faith in the team. I can say I believe 100% in this team, obviously there was a huge hype at the beginning of the year, probably a lot of people expected us to win right away, starting from the first race, but that was not what I expected.”
“I’m coming into a new culture, a new team, and it’s going to take time – added the British driver. “I’ve spent the last couple of months just observing how the team works compared to the other two I’ve worked in before. During the past week I have been able to take notes and point out areas where I think we can improve, and this process will continue throughout the year as we learn more and more from each other”.
Then he came back to the disqualification in China: “In general during a race you always avoid areas of the asphalt where there are bumps, in Shanghai at the exit of turn 13 the bottom was not touching the asphalt, there was not even rebound or anything like that, so I had no warning. Regarding disqualifications, we all know that all these single-seaters are set to the limit in every parameter, personally I didn”t feel any frustration when I was made aware of it. It is what it is”.
“We immediately looked ahead, I was in Maranello on Wednesday and learned a lot. I would say the most impressive thing was seeing how the team worked, how they processed the data and how we worked ahead of this weekend, that is the most important thing” Hamilton concluded.
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Jannik Sinner, Riccardo Piatti name 4 names for post-Darren Cahill
Riccardo Piatti, former coach of Jannik Sinner, gave a lengthy interview to Corriere della Sera in which he spoke about his former pupil with whom he parted ways more than three years ago: “When I finished with Jannik I admit I had a few months of daze, then I went toward what I like: teaching tennis. The Piatti Center is not a supermarket: you go through a growth process here. I did that myself. It was a mental click, priorities changed but tennis remains at the top of my thoughts. Now I chase kids” dreams.
“Everyone remembers the match with Daniel, in Melbourne, in January 2022, when he said: ‘be calm, ca**o’ – continued the Italian coach -. He was mad at me for court stuff, it had happened before: it is normal dynamic between coach and player. That is not the problem. I always wanted Jannik to become independent, I knew he would leave one day. But with him I had to be the strict, sometimes rigid coach: that was my role. Ljubicic scolds me that I used to tell him: you decide, Ivan, but then you do as I say. For Jannik, this penalty, at one point, was too much to handle”.
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Then he mentioned a few names for the post-Darren Cahill, who will leave the’Alto Adige at the end of the season: “Carlos Moya, who I had already considered. He has been No. 1, he knows the circuit. Humanly he is a very good person, like Darren. Renzo Furlan, now that he stopped with Paolini, is free. Ljubicic is very good. Or Becker, whom we had contacted; however, working with Boris is more complicated. The names are these”.
Closing on the return of the world number one, expected at the Internazionali d’Italia: “He will be strong right away. I really believe he can make the Grand Slam this year. The suspension has extended his life: he will arrive at the end of the season fresh. You play too much, mentally you never stop. He will come back energized and motivated. He always has been. In the pandemic many took advantage of it by not training, Gasquet in the doping stop gained eight pounds, Jannik did not lose a day. He knows perfectly well where he wants to go”.
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