First the photo on the sofa with his dog with his leg raised in a brace and on crutches, today the photo of his swollen leg with the plaster covering the stitches from last Monday’s operation. Sofia Goggia updated her fans with two stories on her Instagram profile eight days after the serious injury on the ‘Casola nera’ track in Ponte di Legno.
In the fall, on the third lap of giant slalom training, the 31-year-old champion from Bergamo suffered a multi-fragmentary displaced joint fracture of the right tibial pilon.
In the meantime, the World Cup for both women and men resumes. Waiting for the season finale of Federica Brignone who is third in the general classification with 928 points, 281 points behind the second place of the American Mikaela Shiffrin who will not return to competitions this weekend either following the injury at the end of January in the downhill of Cortina d’Ampezzo. In first place with five points ahead of the American is the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami (1,214 points).
The female White Circus will stop on the slopes of Mont Lachaux in Switzerland where two free downhill runs will take place on Friday and Saturday and a super-G on Sunday. Federica Brignone, Marta Bassino, Roberta Melesi, Teresa Runggaldier, Vicky Bernardi, Nicol Delago, Nadia Delago and Laura Pirovano will go to the gate. The men’s Cup will be in Norway, on the course that awarded the Lillehammer Olympic medals in 1994, the ‘Olympiabakken’ in Kvitfjell. Competing in the downhill and super-G will be Dominik Paris, Christof Innerhofer, the returning Florian Schieder, Mattia Casse, Nicolò Molteni, Pietro Zazzi, Guglielmo Bosca and the debutants Gregorio Bernardi and Marco Abbruzzese.
