Freestyle, season over for Ralph Welponer. The blue snowboard cross at the Stelvio

Freestyle, stagione finita per Ralph Welponer. Lo snowboard cross azzurro allo Stelvio
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Freestyle, season over for Ralph Welponer. The blue snowboard cross at the Stelvio

The World Cup snowboard cross group is preparing this week on the Stelvio glacier where it arrived yesterday and where it will remain until Friday.

The group is composed of Fabio Cordi, Michele Godino, Tommaso Leoni, Matteo Menconi, Emanuel Perathoner, Lorenzo Sommavilla, Omar Visintin, Raffaella Brutto, Sofia Belingheri and Francesca Gallina, followed by the sector manager Luca Pozzolini and the coach Stefano Pozzolini. Absent Michela Moioli who after a first contact with the table in the snow last September, always at the Stelvio was trained up to the cyclists. The first round of the season is expected from 12 to 16 December in Montafon, Austria, with an individual competition and a team test. As for the freestyle sector big air and slopestyle bad news for Italy serious injury to the best exponent of the blue men's team, Ralph Welponer, sixth eleven months ago in the big air of Milan, during a training at the Stelvio. The 21-year-old from Ortisei has suffered an injury to the cruciate ligament of his left knee and today will end up under the knife, the competitive season of the unfortunate South Tyrolean athlete will close here after the seventeenth place in Cardrona's New Zealand big air on 7 September.
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