Who is Flora Tabanelli, bronze in freestyle skiing at the Milan Cortina Olympics

Who is Flora Tabanelli, bronze in Milan Cortina

But who is Flora Tabanelli? Younger sister of Miro, also a young champion of the Italian freeski team, was born in the Modena Apennines on 20 November 2007. She put on skis at the age of two due to the ‘fault’ of her parents, who manage a refuge at high altitude. In the meantime he also enjoys skating and artistic gymnastics. The love for acrobatics and snow jumps is due to his brother Miro, as told in an interview withAdnkronos: “I started freestyle only some time later and it was he who convinced me, he started taking me out to try jumps and acrobatics and little by little I became passionate about it.” At the youth level, the scene takes place between 2023 and 2024, with two titles in big air at the Junior World Championships and two golds at the YOG in Gangwon (one again in big air and the other in slopestyle).

The path of Flora Tabanelli

The consecration last year. In his second season among the greats, despite being 17 years old, he won the overall World Cup (first Italian in history) and big air. At the end of the season, the icing on the cake was the victory at the Engadine World Championships in big air, an occasion in which she became the first Italian ever to triumph at the World Championships in one of the three park & ​​pipe specialties. Out of competitions, Flora describes herself as “a normal girl, with a passion for bonsai and who loves drawing and playing the piano”. At the end of the year, a bad knee injury had put her participation in the Games at risk, but here too the baby blue champion showed character and personality: “There are many feelings on the eve, it’s a great emotion. The Olympics are the dream and the greatest goal for an athlete. There are also great pressures, I try to face one day at a time, one goal at a time. The injury imposes this on me, I try not to look too far ahead and work day by day giving my all, as I’m used to do”.

Flora Tabanelli: “An Olympics honor in Livigno”

In the interview, Flora did not hide her emotion for the Livigno races: “Having the Olympics at home certainly puts a bit of pressure on it, but the energy and affection that I feel coming from my heart overcomes it. For me, it is an honor that the Olympics have Livigno as a venue for freestyle. If we talk about sport, it is the place where I grew up and where I feel at home. Great affection surrounds me”. Curiosity. The sporting idol of the baby blue champion is Alberto Tomba: “He used to come to our refuge – he said – and even today Miro and I watch videos of his races. He is an example of strength and charisma”. (Of Michele Antonellisent to Livigno)