Isabo Levito returns from injury in the world of skiing, remembering an ideal moment

Isabo Levito is still a cheerful smile when asked about the 2024 World Championship, although recent months were one of the most difficult skiing profession.

Levito, who won the age of 13 and 15, won the title of Junior, World Junior and the senior of the United States, silver in the worlds of the great March in Montreal, three weeks after her seventeenth birthday.

He has match the best women in the United States in Worlds since 2006 (when Kimmie Meissner) has been matching.

Levito climbed the Bill Center ice for this free skiing “drowned and stressed”. When she finished her amusement program for four minutes, she had A quick look of amazement.

All of this reduces the confidence she developed in the previous two months, since it decreased three times in the USA 2024 (ended up to third in its defense of its national title for 2023).

“I have been held training like the device,” she said last week. “I just dug, and then by the time when I reached the worlds, everything was like breathing for me. My software was like tracking the back of my hand.”

Levito put the silver medal on the shoulder shelf on the New Jersey bedroom wall. She said, “You can see him all the time.” “He was always looking at you.”

The World Championships for this week in Boston will celebrate the first time that you will skip, free from injuries in the higher level competition since the world last year.

“I do not go to these worlds thinking I must be the platform. I must be like last year. I must do a better jobLevito said: “I barely managed to ski this season,” I am hardly managed to compete this season.

The right foot pain started in the practices that caused Skate America last October, the first event of the Fall Grand Prix series.

She skied through her to put third place, then underwent MRI and learned that she was a bone injury. Stress reaction. She withdrew from her second event in the grand prize race in November.

All, Levito spent more than three months of ice and some in the shoe. It would take three weeks, try to return and have to stop again. The course was repeated.

She filled the time with pre -Cocology, psychology, economics and chemistry, and worked in its first year in school work online.

She said that she was the longest marginalized due to injury, “and it is difficult to return from it.”

Levito withdrew one week before the United States Championship in January. Then in the citizens ’week, she was able to do one pizza without pain.

The ice skating committee in the United States put it on the team from three women in the world, pending that it shows the readiness closer to the competition.

So Levito flew to Milan-her mother’s birthplace and where her grandmother still lives-and competes at the Olympic Test event of 2026 from February 19-20.

Levito estimated that she was skiing by “50 %” there. I just made one ski in practice before doing it in front of the public and judges in Italy.

However, Levito got the task by finishing the runner -up, as it showed sufficient progress with her triple leaps to secure her place in Boston.

She said, “Especially my free program, I felt very tired from the beginning.” “Some of my friends were from Bergamo who were in the stands like,” a girl, you were fighting from start to finish. We saw you fighting. “

“If I don’t know myself well, I would feel nervous, like my God, will I get the triple fall in the second half? Because it is the free program, and I did not run it several times. But knowing myself, I will do that. never Let that happen. I never call myself in a competition like this because I am tired. “

Levito began to feel like again two weeks ago. Last Tuesday, she said that her coaches may make her willingness 85 %.

“She looks well. She looks good now,” said Yulia Kozntsova, her coach since the age of four, last Thursday. “I don’t want to make any predictions or any promises because Isabo has missed three months of skiing.”

The silver medal in Levito from 2024 is no longer on the shelf. She moved – and the medal – to a new room in her home.

She said, “Sometimes I try to think about what I was thinking about before this free program (2024 worlds) free.” “I have no idea. I felt that I was not thinking about the entire program. But before I knew that, it was done, and I did it well, and it was completely because of the training.

“I felt well, and it was just a high moment in my life. It was very perfect.”