Queen's hour is back, Michela Moioli starts again in Valmalenco: "Season to live day by day"

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Today the qualifications for the first two races of the Snowboard Cross World Cup, that's what the holder of the crystal ball told us. And Raffaella Brutto also aims high ...

Friday 22 January 2021 5 minutes reading time

Queen's hour has come, more than ten months after that triumph in Veysonnaz with a particular meaning, given that that final race in Switzerland meant the third World Cup on the showcase and a message to the whole world, in the days when his Bergamo risked being overwhelmed by Covid-19. Today snowboard cross rekindles the engines and its queen, Michela Moioli, is ready as never before to go hunting for the crystal ball again, despite an upset calendar. And then there will be the World Cup, those in which the Olympic champion has not yet won the gold medal. The Bergamo-born, however, wants to experience this particular season day by day, starting with today's qualifying which will start at 13.20, towards the two races on Saturday and Sunday on the snows of Valmalenco. “Here they did a super job, they gave us a great opportunity to compete before the World Championships and they are all very happy, even the foreign athletes. The track is liked, it is a bit different than usual, with the start section resumed from what we would have seen in Bergamo, then the pace changes with a streamlined track. Level races will come out, also because the snow will be slow enough, but the opponents will not change. All dangerous, from Samkova to Brockhoff, Trespeuch ... ”. With Michela we talked about what happened between cancellations and postponements, given that this discipline seemed almost forgotten by the FIS in the remodeling of a calendar almost transformed into a blank sheet, had it not been for the intervention of Valmalenco and the Italian led movement itself from Moioli. “The problem is not Covid, or rather it is one more problem. Some places could no longer organize the stage for economic reasons, the slopes cost a lot because our sport requires a lot of snow and we have been dragging this situation along for years now. I think it is the major federations that need to do more to organize an event in every nation, from the United States to Australia. I also proposed a circuit with sprint races in the city, someone laughed in my face ... ”. A women's national team that, in addition to Francesca Gallina, Sofia Belingheri and Caterina Carpano, will obviously count on the experience and quality of Raffaella Brutto. The Genoese also under the C.S. The Army approaches this World Cup with the fighting spirit that distinguishes it: "It may not be the most suitable track on the circuit for my characteristics, but it matters little because the enthusiasm and emotion of the first race is enormous - he tells us on the eve - The stop was long at a competitive level, but as a team we trained really well thanks to the availability of fantastic centers for availability and quality, such as Stelvio, Cervinia and Colere. We have compared ourselves with the French and the Russians, I personally am very well and, having now accepted that I have to live such a particular season, I have always trained well and I have lived it with the right mentality. We are ready".

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