Festival dello Sport di Trento

Federica Brignone si rivede tigre per tutta la prossima stagione

03 Oct

Federica Brignone will be back as a tiger for the entire next season.

Federica Brignone, Trento Sports Festival

TRENTO - "My goal is to compete the entire season, not just one race. After the Olympics, I fought and fought for this." Federica Brignone, after a difficult but highly satisfying year, with two Olympic medals at Milan-Cortina, spoke about her new challenge at the ninth edition of the Trento Sports Festival. "It was a difficult year, even at the Olympics. I didn't expect to come back with two gold medals. In the condition I was in, it seemed highly unlikely, if not impossible. I'm still surprised, too," she said. And again: "If I was there, it's because I knew I could…

Sofia Goggia, la lotta contro la doppia infezione virale e la promessa di tornare a sciare forte

03 Oct

Sofia Goggia, the fight against a double viral infection and the promise of a strong return to skiing

Chikungunya, Trento Sports Festival, Parvovirus B19, Sofia Goggia

TRENTO – From the Trento Sports Festival, Sofia Goggia spoke about her health, which has been affected by a double viral infection, a rare combination in adults and for which there is no specific treatment. "I just have to wait for it to pass," said the champion from Bergamo, recounting how the alarm bells sounded while she was in Ushuaia, Argentina, training for the start of the World Cup season. In an interview with Sky Sport, she explained how she was experiencing unusual ailments: "In Ushuaia, I was skiing well and fast…

Bertagnolli, Mazzel, De Silvestro: il team più medagliato di Milano-Cortina è paralimpico

03 Oct

Bertagnolli, Mazzel, and De Silvestro: the most decorated team at Milan-Cortina is Paralympic.

Andrea Ravelli, Chiara Mazzel, Trento Sports Festival, FISI, FISIP, Giacomo Bertagnolli, Milan Cortina, Nicholas Cottini, Milan-Cortina Paralympics, René De Silvestro, Stephen Hawking

TRENTO - The impressive medal collection collected by two visually impaired skiers Giacomo Bertagnolli and Chiara Mazzel (and their respective guides Andrea Ravelli and Nicola Cottini) and monoski instructor Renè De Silvestro at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics brings to mind Stephen Hawking's prediction at the 2012 London Paralympics: "The Paralympic movement will change our perception of the world." Their successes, the growing public interest, and the very recent merger between FISIP and FISI (which brings together Olympic and Paralympic winter sports athletes) represent, for the five athletes present at the Festival of…

Al Festival dello Sport di Trento i sette pattinatori di bronzo a Milano Cortina

01 Oct

Seven bronze medalists at the Trento Sports Festival in Milan-Cortina

Charlene Guignard, Daniel Grassl, Trento Sports Festival, Lara Naki Gutmann, Marco Fabbri, Matthew Rizzo, Milan Cortina, Nicholas Macii, Sara Conti

TRENTO - 235 days later, the seven-man team that won the bronze medal in the figure skating team event met in the city of the Council of Trento for the first time since achieving this extraordinary result. Sara Conti, Marco Fabbri, Daniel Grassl, Charlène Guignard, Lara Naki Gutmann, Niccolò Macii, and Matteo Rizzo relived the magical two-day event that allowed Italy to win its first-ever medal in the team event and its third-ever figure skating medal, behind the United States and Japan. The two competitive pairs, Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri in ice dancing, Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii in…