Alpine SkiingBeijing 2022
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With the elimination of the team event in the quarter-finals, the Italy of alpine skiing closes with 4 medals, while the overall expedition greets at an altitude of 17. The words of the quartet who dreamed of the podium and now ... many commitments of World Cup.
Sunday 20 February 2022 7 minutes reading time
The budget says 17 medals for the entire Italy Team expedition to Beijing 2022, with only two titles (few, useless to hide) but an overall quality booty, with 7 silvers and 8 bronzes and many protagonist disciplines.
Alpine skiing, of course, with four metals brought home, without the gold touched downhill with Sofia Goggia second ahead of Nadia Delago, and with the two medals of Federica Brignone, silver in giant and bronze in combined .
The boys were completely absent and even today, in the team event where the blue team fielded a decidedly competitive formation, at least on paper, to play for the podium area, Alex Vinatzer and Luca De Aliprandini were unable to bring home their respective runs, in the key clash with the United States in a quarter-final that saw the American team win 3-1.
"We lost against a very strong team like the United States, Moltzan did the same time as the men, this format is a team match and the Americans were competitive, but we tried - the words of Federica Brignone after the match, through the FISI press office - It was a great experience to share this opportunity with other comrades. In our sport there have never been other opportunities like this, they were good days to be together with other guys. This Olympics ends and I am really satisfied, taking home two medals was a beautiful dream and making it happen was even more beautiful, an incredible emotion. Now I rest one day, change my suitcase and leave for Crans-Montana, one of my favorite stages in the World Cup even if there will be two descents, then three weeks of fire await me that can still reserve me a lot of satisfaction, starting with super-g ranking, but also the three giants that are missing I want to face them with the right determination.
I don't think about the general classification (Federica is third, about 250 points behind the Shiffrin-Vlhova duo, ed), I will certainly go down hard until the last race ”.
Marta Bassino closed her second Olympics without medals, disappointed by the immediate exit in giant while today, as world champion on an individual level in parallel, she has shown her competitiveness. “I come home a few days to train, I will skip the Crans-Montana races to train in Livigno before going to Lenzerheide (5-6 March with super-g and giant) and concentrate in view of the closing appointments. The Olympic experience was certainly not positive, there is a bit of disappointment but I look forward and take what positive these two weeks have left me as I usually do, to bring it to the track in the next races ”.
Alex Vinatzer is really very disappointed: "I was unable to do well in any of the races I participated in, I struggled so much with this aggressive and different snow, there is only work to do and be more ready in the future. because on the track there are always variables, just look at Shiffrin who has won everything in his career but here he is left with a dry mouth. The Olympics are crazy races especially on these snows, the Milan-Cortina Olympics will start for me as soon as I get off the plane in Italy. Now we will make a plan with the coaches regarding the next matches between now and the end of the season, with the aim of eliminating all the mistakes I still make in view of next season ”.
Finally Luca De Aliprandini: “It's a shame because I'm skiing well, but I come home with nothing. I believed a lot in the team event, I am aware that my crash in the quarter-final run was decisive against the United States, it is a game where you win and lose all together, but it weighed on me because it also involved my teammates. I am happy to be back in Italy, I have been in China for many days and I want to reset my energy to return to Kranjska Gora in the best possible way in view of the World Cup finals.
In recent days I have lacked a bit of continuity due to the injury in Adelboden, I have not trained much but now I am fine and with a few more days of work at home I can return to fight for the podium in the last races of the ''year".
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