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In the early afternoon the arrival in Finland, as well as almost all the colleagues, with the charter departed from Zurich. The weather for Saturday and Sunday? Promises snow ...
Wednesday 18 November 2020 3 minutes reading time
All the athletes who, over the weekend, will face the first two slalom of the World Cup season have arrived in Levi.
Among these also the seven blue called by the manager in charge Matteo Guadagnini for the challenge, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday (identical times for both days, with the 1st heat at 10.15 and the 2nd at 13.15), on the "Levi Black" : Federica Brignone, Marta Bassino, Martina Peterlini, Marta Rossetti, Lara Della Mea, Irene Curtoni and the newcomer Serena Viviani finished the preparation between Monday and Tuesday in Breuil-Cervinia, before moving to Zurich where, in the morning today, they got on the charter flight organized by the FIS that brought the white circus to Kittila, the airport a few km from Levi where, at 3.30 pm local time (2.30 pm Italian time), the expected protagonists of the opening of specialty starting in just under 3 days.
There are those who have already worked on Scandinavian snows in the last two weeks, such as Petra Vlhova in Suomutunturi or Swiss and Swedes in Kabdalis, or Mikaela Shiffrin herself who arrived in Finland on her private flight on Monday evening.
The weather forecast for the race weekend, open to the public albeit in a limited way (online presale still active for local spectators only, limited to 3500 daily admissions), announces lower temperatures for the days of Saturday and Sunday, with several degrees below zero and a fair chance of snowfall, missed in recent weeks in that of Levi where, with the snowfarming technique that has been tested for years, the preparation of the mantle was still good.
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