The Italian star competed with a facial trauma after a training accident: “I can say that I gave everything and succeeded”
Happiness is in the smile of Michela Moioli with her bronze medal around her neckthe third Olympic medal of his career . The first, historic, was the gold in Pyeongchang 2018, the first and only five-ring gold of Italian snowboarding. Then came the team silver in Beijing 2022 and now, at home, the beautiful and complicated bronze in Milano Cortina. His face is still destroyed after last Wednesday’s accident, it was hard to believe he could win a medal in these conditions. “My face is still a little swollen I can say that I gave everything and succeeded“. How did she do it? This is a question that Michela herself also asks herself: “Today when I arrived I said to myself ‘Moioli never dies’, because I reappeared in the race two days later with a destroyed face but ready to go down. I have to admit that in the last few days I didn’t believe it either, there were moments when I was at the mercy of myself, but then I got here and something clicked.” It’s all there, in the ability to recover at the right moment and be able to give everything: “A few times in my career I had to hit rock bottom and then rise like a phoenix again. I got a little burned from the flames but in the end I came back.”
The future
At thirty years old and after four Olympics he must decide what to do. “For months my life has been thinking about arriving at February 15th and for years I have lived only for these Olympics. The last period has been very stressful and I definitely want to take some time for myself. But I still love this sport, in fact: I like it more now than before.” There is time to decide what to do, but in the meantime there is still an Olympic stage to complete. On Sunday he will compete in the team cross with the desire to win another medal in mind. And then he can think about the future.
