Milan, 23 Oct. (LaPresse) – “It’ll take time: I want to get back to doing what I love, but only when I’m truly well. It’s been a year and a half since I’ve led a normal life. Since my operation in August, I’ve seen improvements; I’m walking as I haven’t done since before the injury.” Federica Brignone said this during an interview with Corriere della Sera, discussing the timeframe for her return to the ski slopes. Feeling well: in life or on skis. “In everyday life. I’ll have lasting effects forever; I’m trying to minimise them. Since the injury, I’ve always put the person first, then the athlete: I don’t want to spend my whole life limping.” On whether she feels she took risks at the Olympics. “No, or rather: in inverted commas. I felt I had the situation under control. But when you get on your skis, you’re always taking risks,” she admitted. Her feat on the Milan–Cortina route has been made into a film screened at the Rome Film Festival. “It really is a story straight out of a film, in the sense that it’s impossible to pull off. And everything was filmed as it happened, without recreating anything,” she said. In the summer, at J Medical, she bumped into Jannik Sinner. “It’s difficult to get inside someone’s head; my advice is to take the time you need: in my career, I’ve often underestimated certain signals from my body and paid the price in the long run. Jannik is so strong that if he gets back to 100 per cent, there’ll be no stopping him,” he concluded.
Skiing, Brignone: ‘I don’t want to spend my whole life limping’
Milan, 23 Oct. (LaPresse) – “It’ll take time: I want to get back to doing what I love, but only when I’m truly well. It’s been a year and a half since I’ve led a normal life. Since my operation in August, I’ve seen improvements; I’m walking as I haven’t done since before the injury.” Federica Brignone said this during an interview with Corriere della Sera, discussing the timeframe for her return to the ski slopes. Feeling well: in life or on skis. “In everyday life. I’ll have lasting effects forever; I’m trying to minimise them. Since the injury, I’ve always put the person first, then the athlete: I don’t want to spend my whole life limping.” On whether she feels she took risks at the Olympics. “No, or rather: in inverted commas. I felt I had the situation under control. But when you get on your skis, you’re always taking risks,” she admitted. Her feat on the Milan–Cortina route has been made into a film screened at the Rome Film Festival. “It really is a story straight out of a film, in the sense that it’s impossible to pull off. And everything was filmed as it happened, without recreating anything,” she said. In the summer, at J Medical, she bumped into Jannik Sinner. “It’s difficult to get inside someone’s head; my advice is to take the time you need: in my career, I’ve often underestimated certain signals from my body and paid the price in the long run. Jannik is so strong that if he gets back to 100 per cent, there’ll be no stopping him,” he concluded.