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Sofia Goggia capped off a comeback weekend to remember with a victory in the women's Super G and a second consecutive podium at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Beaver Creek, Colorado on Sunday (15 December). The Italian ski ace was making her return after 10 months away from competition since suffering a fracture to her tibia and ankle in Februa...

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Italian Alpine skier Sofia Goggia clinched this year's downhill World Cup title on Saturday, her fourth crown after those won in 2018, 2021 and 2022. She took the title before even taking to the slope at Kvitfijell, Norway, as her only potential rival, Slovenia's Ilka Stuhec, placed third in the provisional standing, meaning Goggia's lead at the to...

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Italy’s Sofia Goggia earned an extraordinary 20th career World Cup win in St Moritz, taking gold just 24 hours after breaking her hand so badly that she required emergency surgery. Goggia finished second in Switzerland on Friday despite hitting a gate so hard she fractured her hand in two places and travelled by helicopter to Milan to go under the...

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Ever since she conquered her second Olympic medal in Beijing in 2022. #onlythebrave is Sofia Goggia’s favorite hashtag. The Italian star pushes boundaries and challenges established rules. After crashing hard last January and recovering from her injuries in record time, she keeps showing that no matter what happens to her, she is part of an elite g...

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Sofia Goggia comfortably secured the 2021/22 downhill Crystal Globe despite a 12th-place finish in the final event at the Alpine Ski World Cup Finals on Wednesday (16 March) in Courchevel, France. The race win went to overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin, who claimed just her third career downhill victory. Olympic silver medallist from Beijing...

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Closed the 24th edition of the Winter Olympic Games, now begins the countdown to the 25th edition to be held in Italy: Milan-Cortina. Italy finished in 13th place in the traditional medals table (where the gold medals "weigh" more), 9th in the "American" medals table, that is, the one that takes into account the total number of laurels won. We are...

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Sofia Goggia bent over on the leg that wouldn’t bend, and here, across the finish line that seemed uncrossable, she exploded. She saw a green light, evidence of an Olympic lead, and her brain went racing — back through three hellish weeks, to the Jan. 23 crash that ripped up her left knee and fractured her fibula, and seemingly shattered her dreams...

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Italy is poised to build on a record-setting success at last Summer Olympics, said Giovanni Malago, president of the Italian National Olympic Committee. The Italian team, announced earlier this week, will include 118 athletes, two fewer than that of the 2018 PyeongChang, and Malago expected this year's team will do better than its counterparts from...

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Sofia Goggia is going to need to recover in a hurry from a series of injuries following another crash on Sunday if she’s going to be able to defend her Olympic downhill title next month. Goggia would have been an overwhelming favorite for another gold — or two: she’s also a force in super-G. But she sprained her left knee, partially tore a cruciate...

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The endless cacophony of ambulance sirens. The convoys of military trucks carrying away the overflowing coffins. The funerals — or lack thereof. Nobody who lived through the initial wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Bergamo — the first epicenter of COVID-19 in Europe — will ever forget it. For Sofia Goggia and Michela Moioli, the city’s two Olymp...

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