Off the snowboard cross season, Michela Moioli wants everything: "I have a different head than last year"

The Olympic champion leads the Azzurri in the first stage of the World Cup in Montafon: qualifying on Thursday, the grand finale on Friday.

Wednesday 11 December 2019 3 minutes reading time

If the season of blue snowboarding began in all effects last weekend, with the triumphs between slalom and parallel giant of the team led by Roland Fischnaller, on the snows of Bannoye, it will be Austria to wet the debut of snowboardcross team, with the first stage of the World Cup scheduled in Montafon. In the Austrian resort, which has bent over backwards to organize a "first" risk given the low amount of snow (and the track has been slightly shortened), we will start with qualifying on Thursday, to then play everything in the final stages of Friday 13. And on the track there will be again the Olympic champion Michela Moioli, who wants to go back to the missed success last season, however topped by the world medals. Bergamo is in trust, as explained to the FISI press office: "I feel improved, but we'll see what happens in the race, which is the first for all - his words - I worked on the weak points, I think I have a head different than last year; technically I focused on the laterality and on the agility that will help me in the starting phase, fundamental where few cents can be useful. Here I won a few years ago (it was December 16th 2017, ed), but the track is completely new and the opponents for the victory will be the usual ones, from Samkova to Jacobellis. It is clear that on such a short path, the field of the pretenders widens. My first goal is to return to the top of the podium, I miss it from March 2018 (in Veysonnaz, after the Olympic triumph in PyeongChang), then we'll think about the general classification ". In addition to Moioli, in Montafon Omar Visintin, Tommaso Leoni, Emanuel Perathoner, Lorenzo Sommariva, Filippo Ferrari, Michele Godino, Matteo Menconi, Sofia Belingheri (who started winning in the European Cup) and Raffaella Brutto will be competing.

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