Lara Colturi is no longer a promise, but a solid certainty: Italy missed out on a unique talent simply because it asked to be able to train with a private team.
Two podiums don’t prove ita bit like the clues, but everyone knows it’s only a matter of time before Lara Colturi let go through the bile to “poor” Italian Federation. Who realizes the fact that he let slip a unique and crystalline talent like no other in the history of women’s alpine skiing: having denied him the possibility of working with a private team only because he was only 15 this could mean having to pay a very high price, with Albania benefiting from the sensational star and especially the extraordinary results of the only 18-year-old from Turin.
An explosion that would not take long to come
Second place obtained in giant slalom Subordinate à Kranjska Gora this served to reignite a controversy destined to last for a long time to come. Because even those who are not very experts in winter sports understand this Lara has such a unique and exquisite talent like few people see around.
There are even those who went further, saying that they did not approve of the decision of the father Alessandro and mother Daniela Ceccarelli be able to continue to educate their daughter independently The tribe she ran away “the new sinner of Italian sport”.
After all, no skier Barely 18 years old, he had never achieved two podiums in two different disciplines.Lara having already finished second in the The Gurgl slalom behind Mikaela Shiffrin. And given what has been done by Sara Hector in Slovenia, with all rivals trailing by almost a second and a half, second place is worth almost as much as a victory.
The beauty of “growing up together” with your mother Daniela
At the finish line Lara was radiant like few other times she had been in his life. After all, despite his very young age, he has already had to endure a lot of trouble: the cross wound which kept him away from competitions throughout last season could have jeopardized his bright future, but it seems that he has been marked under the term “road accident” and nothing more.
“It certainly wasn’t easy to start again, but I am happy to feel these sensations. I knew I had skied well in the first run, I just had to remember to do the same in the second and I think I succeeded. I’m really happy with this result because I knew I had trained well the last few days (with Alice Robinson)but then the race is a whole different world”. The parallel with the mother Daniela it comes almost naturally: “She had a great career, I now have I make mine and it’s wonderful to be able to grow together.
FISI rules did not allow for exceptions (ouch, ouch, ouch…)
This last sentence contains it a good part of the universe which revolves around the 18-year-old from Turin. The choice to train with her family was the reason that convinced her to accept the proposal from the Albanian federation, thus abandoning join the FISI development team.
The story is three years old, but it has become relevant again these days. Lara started reaping impressive resultsi: at the time the Italian federation, respectful of its regulations, denied the Colturi family the opportunity to create a private staff for their daughteras she was considered too young to be able to make such a request.
It goes without saying that many top athletes in the women’s sector have personalized technicians (Davide, Brignone’s brother, Goggia with Luca Agazzi, Bassino with Daniele Simoncelli), that day The tribe if he had made an exception for a 15 year old, someone would have yelled at him scandal. Maybe because no one would have imagined that three years later, Lara would prove that she was truly a skier unlike anything seen before on planet Italy.clear of the serious injury that kept her sidelined for a season.
Lara only thinks about the competition. And this analogy with Goggia…
Sprinkling ashes on your head today is of no use. Although counter-evidence is lacking, the idea that if he hadn’t had the freedom to train with his is plausible Colturi’s private team would have taken longer already becoming the athlete she has become.
The Albanian federation is jubilant (it even confided to mother Daniela the role of technical director of all national teams) and the feeling is that barely Lara he will retrace his stepsthat is, choosing to return to compete for the Italian national team (if he did so, he would lose all his Points FIS conquered and should rise almost from the bottom, as happened to a lesser extent Braathen Pinheiro and Hirscher).
After all, she cares just compete: the disappointment of not being able to defend the blue colors is more than mitigated by the results obtained so far, such that it even amounts to seventh place overall. And there The tribe can only bite one’s elbows: have ” abandoned “ to an athlete born on the same day as Sofia Goggia (i.e. November 15) could become the biggest regret for decades to come.
