Rome, February 15, 2022 – La silver medal conquered by Sofia Goggia Everyone Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics it’s just the last story he tells of a recovery lightning after a serious injury, arrived close to an international competition, and a success to remember forever. The skier from Bergamo on the Chinese snow has made history, demonstrating a spirit of revenge and a desire to never give up that only super champions possess.
Super champions like Franco Baresi, Francesco Totti e Roberto Baggio, protagonists in the football field of two lightning recoveries from unexpected injuries. Of Baresi we all remember the right knee injury during the 1994 USA World Cup. The meniscus injury did not deter the flag of Milan who, after the surgery, on July 17 returned to the field for the unfortunate final against Brazil. Just 25 days had passed since the day of the operation.
Fantastic story also that of Totti before the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In Roma-Empoli an intervention by defender Vanigli shatters a fibula. Stop for at least 5 months. Not for Totti who after 90 days is already racing in Trigoria. In July, however, he will be with his arms in the sky in Berlin for the victory of the World Cup.
The story with the protagonist Baggio instead it is dated 2004. During the Parma-Brescia of the Italian Cup, the right knee of the divine pigtail crashes. Diagnosis says cruciate ligament rupture and external meniscus tear. A very serious injury, even more so for a 36-year-old athlete. But Baggio did not give up and returned to the field 81 days after the surgery.
Purebred sportsmen are used to taking risks, by dint of recovery time from injuries to get back to feeling the adrenaline of competition. For confirmation ask Marc Marquez which in 2020 paid with a long stop the attempt to get back on track immediately in the MotoGP just two days after the operation on his right arm. In 2013 he fared much better at Jorge Lorenzo. After the fall and fracture of his left collarbone in free practice, the Spanish motorcyclist was operated on and immediately returned to the saddle. He will close the Assen Grand Prix in fifth place.
There is also Valentino Rossi among the protagonists of crazy returns after really terrible falls. In 2010, at Mugello, Vale suffered an exposed fracture of the tibia and fibula of the right leg during practice. Two interventions follow, but 30 days later Rossi is riding a Yamaha SBK, on the Misano track. After 41 days he is in the race: at the Sachsenring he comes fourth.
Sofia Goggia has updated the book of miraculous recoveries among skiers. In 1984 Pirmin ZurbriggenShortly after seriously injuring his knee during his first downhill victory in Kitzbuhel, he managed to clinch the first of his 4 World Cups in the overall standings. In 2001 it was the turn of Hermann Maier, hit by a car while it is in motion. He even risks having a leg amputated. But in 2003, after various operations, he returns to the competition and the following year he wins his fourth World Cup.
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