The blues of the slalom ready to degass. Vinatzer: "High expectations". Razzoli: "I'm happy here"

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The blues of the slalom ready to degass. Vinatzer: "High expectations". Razzoli: "I'm happy here"

Wednesday the last chance for the Italian men's sector, at least at the level of individual competitions, of a medal in Beijing 2022. Hall with some back problems, "but now I'm better".

Dry from the descent to the super-g, from the combined to the giant, with the opportunity of the slalom for a blue national team that, on a male level, is looking for the first medal in these Olympic Games, after having already made "zero" at PyeongChang 2018 . The last hopes are entrusted to Giuliano Razzoli, Alex Vinatzer and Tommaso Sala, who will compete in Yanqing on Wednesday. “These days are going well, as planned. We will do a few more laps tomorrow, the approach is ok and I'm getting used to this snow. How well and how fit I am will be the race classification, but I am happy with these days ", declared the" Razzo "via the FISI website, who dreams of another medal 12 years after the gold of Vancouver. Alex Vinatzer will be the only blue starting in the 15: “We managed to do two days of slalom here in Yanqing, and on Tuesday we will do another to see if there will be changes in the snow. We have tried something with the materials and I think I have found a good solution. The feeling is there, even before leaving I was skiing well. It is useless to deny that the expectations are quite high, so I will try to give my best, to ski at all. It will be necessary to see how the Austrian coach's layout will be and then, based on that, the battle plan will be made for both the first and second heat. Seeing the track, however, I think there will be a lot to attack and I'm curious to see what the race will be like ”. Tommaso Sala, close to the top five between Kitzbuehel and Schladming, got the ticket for his first Olympics and tells himself less than 48 hours before the race: "I'm physically fine, I had a bit of back pain in the days past, but now it's almost gone. The approach to the race is going really well, I am skiing fast and solid, I feel ready and I will do my best. Today we did slalom training and on Tuesday we will do it again and then there will be the race. When the snow is smooth I feel very comfortable, while when it is marked it becomes more difficult than the European snow ”.
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