Rome, February 14, 2022 – Federica Brignone will not be in the downhill tomorrow, out of the quartet of blue called after a bad performance in the last test today. But the 31 year old from Milanthe most successful Italian skier in the World Cup and with already 2 Olympic medals behind her, will also not be in the competitions of Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, an edition of the Games on which Brignone did not fail to raise some criticisms. She talked about it herself, after today’s downhill test where she explained that she had had a hard time.
The downhill test
“She’s gone very bad – Federica Brignone explained after closing the test at 2′.70 from the fastest -, even today I didn’t find the feeling in the third corner, I immediately crashed. And then I go haywire mentally, I’m not supported, I don’t want to do speed. I’m not closed I can’t get the feeling that I had downhill this year on this track and I can’t find it. I can’t make any difference. I ski well at the bottom, but there are four corners and I don’t record. “
Milan-Cortina 2026
Speaking instead of the upcoming Winter Games at home, Federica Brignone said many things, including “I don’t think I’ll be there” and his own point of view on the fact that “in Milan-Cortina the Olympic spirit will be missing“.
“They will live in a place where the winter sports are at home – explained the blue champion – the Alps are fantastic, we will finally have the Olympic Games back in Europe. I liked coming to new countries, but there are slopes used to host alpine skiing competitions “.
“The only one bad thing of the Milan-Cortina Olympics is that it will all be scattered. There will be no Olympic village, there will be no Olympic spirit – added Brignone – In Pyeongchang it was all within half an hour. Already here in China it is more complex, in Milan-Cortina there will not even be males in alpine skiing. We will be each in a different place. It is right to exploit the structures, just not to consume, just not to build anything new, from the ecological point of view it will be much better, from the point of view of the Olympic spirit it will not be nice. Here we are all together, despite the covid we are all among athletes, you see each other among other sports you sit with different people every day. This will not exist in Milan-Cortina. It will be a regret. ”
“It will be like doing a World Cup or a World Cup race, without male participation – he stressed -. Males in Cortina? I don’t think, it would be too easy for them. Paris kills himself on that track. He will certainly go as far as Milan- Curtain, I don’t think so. I like the Olympic spirit, like that I pass the desire“.
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