Elena Fanchini, the skier died: she was 37 years old – Corriere.it

The former skier Elena Fanchini died at the age of 37. In August she had discovered a recurrence of the tumor that had struck her for the first time in 2018. In August, at the end of the month I started the first treatments – she had told her in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera -. A repeat offender. The first time I was completely healed. But unfortunately, and I’m realizing it these days in the hospital, many recurrences happen. There are things you can’t command, I learned that from illness and from skiing too. a pity it happened again, but I can’t give up, said Elena just two weeks ago. On that occasion she had found a reason to smile about her: her friend Sofia Goggia had dedicated her victory in the Cortina descent to her: Elli for you. I want to dedicate the victory to Elena Fanchini who is going through a delicate moment.

Elena, a former national team downhill skier, like her sister Nadia: she won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships and two World Cup races, and retired in 2020.

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