Snowboard cross isn't just a sport for me.
It's much more.
It's my life.
The Olympic final is go.
Look at that, Michela Moioli's made great progress.
Oh, the edge is touched.
What happened to Michela Moioli on that last jump?
But that wasn't the end.
For me it was just the beginning.
OLYMPIC CHANNEL ORIGINAL SERIES
An accident like that can cripple a career.
Hopefully she'll make a full recovery.
It's like tempering iron, at these levels.
Either it breaks or it becomes the strongest.
AGAINST ALL ODDS, MICHELA MOIOLI
BERGAMO, ITALY
Snowboard cross is a discipline which involves speed.
This is snowboard cross.
Riders, ready?
Four or six boarders race down a track with curves,
jumps, humps.
It's Moioli that takes over Jacobellis. Unbelievable...
A snowboard cross athlete needs to have a strong physique.
When you think these athletes are travelling at 70,
80, 90kph, they have to think fast.
They must have immense mental speed when making decisions.
It's a sport which carries a high risk of injury,
it's obvious, it's evident.
At the aerobic level, the physical level,
the muscular level, the strength level,
everything has to be perfect.
From head to toe.
A big start down the leap of faith.
The gold medal race is under way.
And it's Trespeuch who's had the best start,
but there's three all out at the same speed...
COLERE - ITALY
Well done!
Winter would come, I would dream...
I would dream of snow, I would dream of snowflakes,
I would dream it was going to snow and when it snowed,
I was so happy.
Do you eat snow?
Well, we're a family who went...
We went skiing often,
every Saturday and Sunday since they were little.
But it was enough just to be able to go and touch
the first snow and then maybe even snowboard just ten metres.
Michela was spotted by chance on the Colere ski slopes.
And I'll always remember the image of seeing
this little girl going straight down the tracks.
To put it briefly,
she was jumping in the middle of the track
and a guy who was going up on the chairlift
took a look at her.
And I heard a voice,
"Hey, you, little girl with the black jacket,
"why don't you come and train with us?"
Michela was a little girl with promise, let's say,
but she was kind of a diamond in the rough.
She's always been quite a wild girl
and if something didn't interest her,
she wouldn't listen to you.
Not because she didn't want to listen,
but because she was taken over by a feeling, by...
..in that moment she...
...the main thing was speed.
I wanted to snowboard.
I wasn't bothered about having the most beautiful stance
in the world, about being the nicest to watch.
I was interested in going fast,
in being the strongest and having fun.
Moioli, from Italy.
ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP JUNIORS 2009
Michela Moioli.
EUROPEAN CUP COMPETITION 2012, KONGSBERG - NORWAY
EUROPEAN CUP COMPETITION 2012, LENK, SWITZERLAND
EUROPEAN CUP COMPETITION 2012, CERVINIA, ITALY
My phone rang and Luca Pozzolini was calling me
and he said, "Hi, this is Luca,
"I'm the coach of the Italian National Snowboard Team.
"I was wondering if you'd like to come and train with us,
"try some races, and the Olympics are this year..."
I don't remember what else he said
because my brain went haywire.
My only thought was, "The National Team. A dream!"
Yes, yes, yes, that's good! Go on!
First race in Austria, in Montafon.
The weather was bad, it was snowing, it was foggy.
It was the first race I went to see.
The coach,
who at the time was checking that area of the track,
said to her on the radio,
"Miki, you must break between the first and second curve."
There was a curve then a jump and another curve.
She lost control in the middle of the curve.
And I felt that the board was losing grip.
She slid into the nets.
And all I remember are the red nets close by.
She went down headfirst.
And then, boom!
And she said to me, "Listen, Mum, I can't race tomorrow
"because I have had a head injury."
I froze a little and thought, "Oh, my God".
It was the 2012 season and we thought,
"With a couple of years of experience,
"of high-level training and accompanied by senior staff,
"etc, she could do well racing in the 2014 Sochi Olympics."
That was our idea.
She was very young when she joined National Team A
and all her team-mates were much older.
Even her relationship with us was at times a bit difficult
because anyhow - young, strong character...
And that made Michela very anxious,
so much so that she avoided talking to her coach
and she didn't interact much with her team-mates.
She was so anxious, so anxious because...
..as I said earlier, you go from the provincial team
straight to the competitive team - the A Team -
and then in a few years you find yourself
being catapulted straight into the Olympics and you think,
"Where am I going? Where are we going? Where is Michela going?"
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, SOCHI 2014
Although it was only my second year in the National Team,
although I didn't have much experience,
I was thinking about the medals.
There are the quarterfinals,
the semifinals and the final.
The first three to reach the finish line
go on to the next stage until they get to the final.
They start at nine in the morning, they finish,
if all goes well,
they get to the final at three in the afternoon.
Doing five, six, seven rounds of 50 seconds
working as hard as they can on the board.
I knew it was going to be complicated
because her opponents were elite
and they had much more experience than her,
but she, on the other hand, was impudent.
We saw the first descents, the qualifications,
then we saw the first heats.
It wasn't very nice to watch,
she used to trail behind a bit to begin with but, slowly,
she got through the qualifying heats.
She got through the quarterfinals,
got through the semifinals. We were also rejoicing.
She got to the semifinals
and did an incredible photo finish.
She was behind until the last metre of the track.
She let herself drop and crossed the finish line
rolling, but she got through the qualifying heat
she reached the finals.
This is going to decide the location of the gold medal.
That day, I took the chairlift after the qualifications
to go back to the starting gate and I was in the chairlift
with Luca and I was crying like a baby.
It's possible that at Sochi
she wasn't really ready for that final.
We'd seen so many tears,
but as soon as she crossed the starting gate,
she was almost always able to give her all.
Michela Moioli, the Italian.
Riders, ready?
At that moment,
her anxiety reaches its highest peak.
Anxiety is something which can stimulate you
or inhibit you, depending on how you deal with it.
You're tempting fate.
The Olympic final is go.
This is the Olympic final, the top three will pick up medals.
Only two corners to go,
but a lot of jumps in-between.
But look at that, Michela Moioli's made great progress.
Oh, the edge is touched.
What happened to Michela Moioli on that last jump?
I felt a twinge in my knee, like a knife.
The time it took our doctor, Gabriele, to get there
and he'd already said, "Mm..."
As soon as I saw Michela's knee,
I knew what had happened.
She has a distortion injury,
she has probably injured some ligaments.
Let's talk about it calmly.
It was a bad injury.
Being outside of the operating theatre,
we obviously didn't know if Michela's reaction
would be that of defeat.
The fear of losing an athlete after a serious injury
is always there.
It was a hard moment, yes, it was a hard moment.
Very hard.
Such an accident can cripple a career.
We hope she'll make a full recovery.
Everything has to be all right. Not the knee.
Everything has to be all right.
It's like tempering iron, at this level.
Either it breaks or it becomes the strongest.
At the beginning, we had to trivially set up the warm-up
with mobility exercises.
Are we able to work on leg resistance
after 45 seconds of descent?
With proprioceptive gymnastic exercises
in which the use of unstable surfaces
helps to improve one's balance.
From that moment on,
she grew on a global level from all points of view.
Whatever I did,
I did it thinking about the track at PyeongChang.
I did it thinking about the jumps, the curves, anything.
You can easily win,
you can definitely get to the top step of the podium
even if you're not at your fittest,
but the strictly mental component is mandatory.
Anxiety and stress in the days preceding the race drain you.
And then when you get to the starting gate,
you're not yourself any more.
You're you, but you're missing something.
She felt she was strong,
she felt she had a technical talent,
but what happened to her
was something truly difficult to overcome.
She had to work on her physical body and on her mind.
I was agitated because I wanted a medal at any cost.
It was very difficult for Michela to think,
to think well, to think in the correct way.
I start to not see clearly, to worry,
to have disconnected thoughts.
She said that she wanted to continue,
she said that she wanted to start again,
she said that she wanted to become stronger than before.
Say hi!
The real board that I put back under my feet was at Stelvio.
When I got back on it, I didn't think,
"Oh, God, I might get injured again!"
No. I thought, "Oh, finally!"
She has an incredible quality, even now.
You might not see her snowboarding for three months,
but then she gets on the board
and it's as if she'd never stopped.
She succeeded again because, all in all,
she's a very stubborn girl.
When she sets her mind on something, she achieves it.
Awesome!
OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, PYEONGCHANG 2018
We get there.
The track was very difficult, very difficult.
Huge. Huge. Huge structures.
It was a track which had a series of 30 metre jumps
in the last phase.
When I saw one of the jumps, I thought, "They're crazy!"
I said, "That's suicide right there." It's incredible...
The day before Michela's big day,
11 men had some serious accidents.
Fractures, injuries - strong athletes, champions,
not novice athletes.
So there was a lot of tension about the track's safety too.
So much so that some girls backed out
for their own safety.
The atmosphere in the team wasn't serene.
We were very nervous
and in low spirits and Miki noticed that.
So she got very agitated,
so much so that she really started
to get catastrophic thoughts.
When we called her,
I knew that something was wrong.
In the evening she said to me,
"I really wanted to write to you
"because I wanted to see you."
And I could tell she was a little tense, in short.
What happened to Michela Moioli on that last jump?
She told us that she had even been crying,
and then she went to her room.
I had a shower and then I talked to myself and I said,
"You've worked so hard to get here,
"you've worked so hard, you've...
"You're ready, you don't have to do anything else,
"you're ready, go.
"Everything will go well tomorrow, Michela, believe me.
"Everything will go well tomorrow."
We went to have dinner at the restaurant
in the Olympic Village.
And one thing that I'll never forget was that this restaurant
had a window overlooking the track.
At one point, she turned, looked at the track,
turned to her sister and said, "Now I'm ready."
The big news from the Phoenix Snow Park
for the women's snowboard cross.
The number one rule was -
it is banned to think about the medal
until it is hanging on your neck.
There's one down at the back, but all eyes on Michela Moioli.
One of the phrases we always say is,
"Have fun whilst going down, keep people entertained, feel,
"transmit something, transmit your passion."
Moioli absolutely cruises to victory.
It takes everything to win, it's a mix.
Second semifinal. 23 features on this course,
but who will be victorious?
Power, class, planning, strength.
Without one of those elements, you wouldn't be where you are.
Three riders look like they put themselves
into the Olympic final.
An Italian in the final.
The field is at the highest world level.
Big final.
The gold medal race.
Eva Samkova, gold medallist from Sochi, firm favourite.
We're in the finals. Whatever comes now is good.
Trespeuch from France.
Anything can happen at the Olympics.
Alexandra Jekova.
You're lucky if an opponent doesn't cut you off,
doesn't fall on top of you,
because that's part of our sport.
Lindsey Jacobellis, five World Championships.
In this speciality, you can even fall on the finishing line
and the others pass you.
Julia Pereira.
I strapped my feet into the board.
I held the starting gate.
I looked at the camera which was pointing at me. I smiled.
It's the same smile as when she's sure of herself...
..she has that smile.
Michela Moioli, seven podiums in a row,
World Cup leader, big force.
It was clear that she was only there for that.
This is as good as it snowboard cross gets.
It wasn't the Michela Moioli who raced at Sochi.
It wasn't even a relative of that Michela Moioli.
Going to the Olympics isn't a nice trip.
They only have one shot so it has to go well.
And now the Big Final. Ready to start!
Green light for Michela Moioli.
She's starting from the centre, Eva Samkova is next to her.
They are competing right now.
Chloe Trespeuch is also off to a good start.
The gold medal race is under way.
Trespeuch's had the best start
but there's three really fighting hard.
A very fast line for Moioli who is going on the inside
and is managing to take advantage again of the...
And now she's in second place behind Jacobellis.
Jacobellis is in front. Is it going to be a redemption day
for the American who's yet to win Olympic gold?
It started well, but there's a long way to go.
The middle of the pack are going to have to fight Moioli.
Almost a touch of boards between the first two.
Moioli is now second. Moioli has overtaken...
Moioli is taking the lead right now, ahead of Jacobellis.
It's Moioli that takes over Jacobellis.
Unbelievable scenes.
Moioli is taking the lead and has just overtaken Lindsey
who is now in Trespeuch's way.
What else can happen in this sport?
Michela Moioli ahead.
Michela Moioli heading towards the last series of jumps
and rollers to manage the situation.
Moioli, the World Cup leader, has now opened up a gap
between her and the rest of the field
as we start to hit kicker after kicker.
Last jump and then the finishing line.
Is Moioli going to win gold here?
Italy takes gold with Michela Moioli!
Michela Moioli and the tricolour on the highest level
of the podium for snowboard cross.
She was the new Olympic champion
and she deserved it.
She deserved all of it.
The gold medallist, Moioli from Italy.
Michela Moioli.
When the journalist said, "Italy takes gold" that...
that made me crazy.
Michela takes gold for Italy.
That's the big news.
Michela can't believe that she made it!
We saw each other, we hugged each other,
and we started crying.
"Michela, you've won, Michela, you've got the gold medal!"
"And, Mum..." From here, it still makes me cry.
She's really won, I mean, she's won the Olympics.
And she wins the Olympic gold.
Michela Moioli, from Bergamo, from Alzano,
coming from the Scalve Boarder Team
has won gold.
The phoenix has risen again.
Think about how much, how much time has passed,
how much has happened how I've grown,
how I've changed, what I've been through.
First place, representing Italy.
Michela Moioli!
It was what I'd wanted since I was a little girl and it was...
I believed it, I knew it was true.
I was the new Olympic champion.
On the highest level of the podium - gold medal for Italy!
The sensations you feel are almost like a kind of floating
and you have this feeling like you're flying,
and it's amazing because you feel it coming from your board,
going through your feet
and rising up until it reaches your hands.
It's a dance, something amazing which sometimes
you can't even explain because you have to experience it.
AGAINST ALL ODDS, PRESENTED BY BRIDGESTONE
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