Skier Sofia Goggia’s surgery went well. Even if the season is over for the athlete. The surgical operation served to reduce “a displaced multi-fragmentary articular fracture of the right tibial pilon”, explains Fisi, and the athlete will have to remain still for 40 days before starting the most active part of the physiotherapy. “Another injury that interrupts my pursuit of a new downhill World Cup – declared the champion from Bergamo before entering the operating room -, but this time too I will be able to get back up”.
The authors of the intervention are Dr. Andrea Panzeri, president of the Fisi Medical Commission, in collaboration with Dr. Riccardo Accept, head of the Traumatology Unit of the Irccs Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital in Milan. According to witnesses present on the Casola di Ponte Di Legno slope, Goggia appeared calm immediately after the fall. But once the boot was removed, the athlete would have cried from the pain of the fracture. She was putting her right leg through a door in a right-handed curve.
The accident occurred on Monday morning, during a training session in Ponte di Legno (Brescia), around 10.30. The skier fell on the Temù slope. “It’s always sad when an athlete gets hurt – ha said the president Flavio Roda Fisi -. Sofia, in particular, was in a very positive moment: strong in speed and also improved in giant slalom. It’s a real shame, this injury. We hope it will be resolved in the best possible way.”
Excessive speeds: perhaps we need to reassess the risks
For Goggia, good wishes also arrived from president Attilio Fontana: “A year flies by and we look with hope and trust at the incredible strength of our Bergamo team, in view of the 2025 World Cup and the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Sofia we are all with you !”. The governor, in commenting on what he defines as “bad, bad news” on social media, addresses Sofia Goggia, inviting her to “take all the time necessary” by thinking back to the “countless sporting miracles to which she has accustomed us in recent years”.
Lara Magoni, undersecretary to the Presidency with responsibility for Sport and young people, a former skier, said that “a few days ago, speaking with our friend and national teammate Deborah Compagnoni, we were wondering about the fact that we are probably investing too much in speed, favoring the power to obtain a few more kilometers per hour to create more and more media attraction”.
“Competition – he concluded Poppies – always brings with it the risk of injury, but I believe serious reflection on the topic is necessary, doing everything to limit the risks, for the good of our athletes. Come on Sofia, – is the undersecretary’s wish – we are all with you and we look forward to seeing you soon. The World Cup without you loses a great protagonist.”