Petra Vlhová's explosive reckoning: “It was a massacre”

Petra Vlhová will publish a biography in November. In it, the 26-year-old speaks in detail for the first time about the separation from her long-time successful coach Livio Magoni - an end that turned out to be messy.

The Slovak medium SME.sk Before the book was published, he published a few passages that were very explosive. Vlhová, who has not yet said much about the breakup with Magoni, writes about the hours that sealed the end of the collaboration. “The first three years with coach Livio Magoni were incredible. He showed me a new world. He showed me how I function best. “Little by little it started to get worse and the last season with him was a massacre,” said the slalom specialist. “Livio treated me like a machine. Not like a woman who also has feelings.” Petra Vlhova The overall World Cup winner also provides the reason for these statements. “Livio treated me like a machine. Not like a woman who also has feelings, who has her periods and who sometimes fails. He was never satisfied. He hurt me and the people on the team. It was sick,” were the tough words of the Slovakian, who added: “If I had continued with him, I would have lasted a maximum of two more years.” After an interview everything was over Led to the final break between the two an interview that Livio Magoni gave to Corriere della Sera. In it he said, among other things, that Vlhová had “feet like irons” and that “ignorance” was omnipresent in the Vlhová team. When the 2019 giant slalom world champion read this, she completely lost her temper. “I had a press conference at Bratislava Castle, then I slept at a friend's house. In the morning I was reading the news on my phone and suddenly the headline caught my eye,” she writes in her book.

Vlhova and her former coach Livio Magoni.

“I clicked on the article. At first I didn't understand what that meant since the interview was in Italian. That's why I had it translated and read everything. I broke down mentally. I screamed for about three hours, I couldn't stop it. I called my brother to break things off with Livio. I swore violently on the phone. At that moment I hated him, he ruined all the joys of winning the overall World Cup.”

A little later it became known that the two had separated. However, it was not yet known that Petra Vlhová suffered so much from it. She has now regained her strength under neo-coach Mauro Pini and wants to attack in Sölden on Saturday.

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Petra Vlhová's explosive reckoning: “It was a massacre”

Petra Vlhová won the overall World Cup last season. However, there was a lot of trouble behind the scenes, which led to a separation from successful coach Livio Magoni. Now the Slovakian is taking a tough stand against her former coach.

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