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The Cortinese, current manager of the Chinese women's curling national team, is confined to staff and athletes in a 30,000-seat facility in Tianjin after traveling for weeks ...
Tuesday 21 April 2020 3 minutes reading time
An incredible story, the one that involves Marco Mariani, one of the great protagonists of the blue curling and now technical commissioner of an ambitious national such as the Chinese one.
Returning from the trip to Canada, where the world championships were not held, Mariani, his staff and all the players first had to observe a 14-day quarantine in Beijing, then another two weeks on the border with Mongolia and, fortunately with exams that have always given negative results, currently in one ... football stadium.
Yes, because the former player who lived with the Italian national team the great adventure at the 2006 Turin Olympic Games, to then win two historic bronze medals by coach of the blue and then of the same male team of Joel Retornaz, brought to the historic qualification for PyeongChang 2018, it is now located in the "Tianjin Haihe Education Park Stadium", or one of the facilities (30 thousand seats) in Tianjin, where Fabio Cannavaro himself trained one of the best Chinese football clubs; equipped with gyms and various equipment, in addition to the same rectangle of play that can be exploited, Mariani is continuing to work with his team, staying in the rooms set up inside the stadium.
Preparation for the 2022 Beijing Games, the real big goal of the four-year period, let's say that it has currently only slowed down.
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