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Only eight athletes called up for the World Cup stage in France, starting on Thursday with the women's Sprint: debut for another young woman, we will not see Carrara and Comola. The world champion hijacked on the IBU Cup with Bionaz, Cappellari returns.
Tuesday 14 December 2021 4 minutes reading time
Important and decisive choices, those of the technical director of the blue biathlon, Fabrizio Curtaz, in view of the imminent appointment of Le Grand Bornand.
For the new stage of the World Cup, scheduled on the transalpine snows from Thursday (women's Sprint) to Sunday (ending with the mass start, the two previous days there will be men's Sprint and Pursuits), only eight athletes have been called up and excluded excellent. In the women's quartet, alongside Dorothea Wierer and Lisa Vittozzi, still looking for the first podium of the season (like the entire blue group), we will see another debut in the World Cup, that of the very young Linda Zingerle, but also the return to the maximum circuit of Federica Sanfilippo, excluded from the national team but who also won last weekend in the Coppa Italia round in Forni Avoltri.
Outside, compared to Hochfilzen, Michela Carrara, Samuela Comola and Eleonora Fauner, who had her first experience in CdM in Austria.
News also in the men's sector: Lukas Hofer, Tommaso Giacomel, Thomas Bormolini and another athlete returning to the World Cup, the Friulian Daniele Cappellari, have been called up: only four men and they will stay at home, or rather they will go and compete for their chances in the IBU Cup , none other than Dominik Windisch and Didier Bionaz. The South Tyrolean and the Aosta Valley will therefore compete in the weekend in Obertilliach, together with Patrick Braunhofer, Michele Molinari, Saverio Zini and David Zingerle, while in the women's field there will be Hannah Auchentaller, Michela Carrara herself, Rebecca Passler and Beatrice Trabucchi.
Instead, Val Martello will host the IBU Cup jr circuit again, on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 December. Attending the call will be Martina Trabucchi, Astrid Plosch, Ilaria Scattolo, Sara Scattolo, Fabiana Carpella, Gaia Brunetto, Gaia Brunello, Iacopo Leonesio, Fabio Piller Cottrer, Elia Zeni, Marco Barale, Nicolò Betemps, Thomas Daziano and Nicolò Giraudo.
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