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Training day for the gigantists who will face the Olympic competition on Monday. Switzerland chooses Wendy for the opening ceremony, 30 years after Vreni Schneider. Livio Magoni: "Incredible organization".
Thursday 3 February 2022 4 minutes reading time
The first test of the men's downhill opened the program of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games as regards alpine skiing, even if we will have to wait until Sunday for the first race, precisely with the jet men protagonists.
On Monday 7th, however, it will be time for a female giant and today was an important day in Yanqing, since all the athletes who will be protagonists of the first challenge for women in this five-circle review have finally arrived. Among the last to take to the track, the blue who today also celebrated Elena Curtoni's birthday.
The sensations on the Chinese snow? Apparently, Mikaela Shiffrin is feeling particularly well and Petra Vlhova has also done good training, while Maryna Gasienica-Daniel has some back problems. I work in the right direction for Wendy Holdener and Alice Robinson, but for the Swiss and the New Zealander a great recognition has also arrived from the respective national Olympic committees: both will be standard-bearers tomorrow evening (13.00 Italian) in the opening ceremony, in the case of the '' Swiss (who will fill this role 30 years after Vreni Schneider, the last Red Cross skier to do so) together with hockey player Andres Ambuehl, as regards the very young from Queenstown paired with Finn Bilous, freestyle skier. And France, we remember, will have Tessa Worley among its standard bearers.
If the quality of the slopes had already been enhanced in recent days by almost all the insiders, by Livio Magoni, Meta Hrovat's coach, we get very interesting information also on the organizational and logistical level, defined as exceptional by the Bergamo coach. “Here everything is really perfect, the Olympic village is incredible and the kindness on the part of every employee is maximum, right from the arrival at the airport.
On the Covid front, a great deal of attention, with sanitation every two hours. The work done on the track is super, an engineering perfection with A nets everywhere, guns every 25 meters on both sides, bridges and tunnels. Even better than Sochi and PyeongChang ”.
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