Blue ready to fly for Argentina, on Friday the start of Bassino, Brignone and Goggia. Rulfi: "We will make 25 days of quality"

The three stars of the elite group waited in Ushuaia for five crucial weeks towards an ideal preparation for the season. The words of the technical director (who talks about Brignone's knee problem) and the complete program of the national teams: the slalomists will start on 10 September.

Thursday 18 August 2022 8 minutes reading time

Suitcase ready, ticket in your pocket and a flight to Argentina, in the heart of Tierra del Fuego, which awaits them in a few hours. On Friday, after two summers of absence from the winter snows of South America due to a pandemic, Marta Bassino, Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia will open the blue away match in Ushuaia, where in the coming weeks all the World Cup groups will prepare for the new season. The elite trio will remain in Argentina until next 23 September: they are five full weeks, with about 25 days of skiing planned as the technical director of the women's team, Gianluca Rulfi, explained to physi.org. At the beginning of next week it will be the turn of the slalomgiant riders and Dominik Paris (in flight on Wednesday 22 August), while the multi-purpose women's team will start on 26 August and the men's speed group at the beginning of September. The last team to fly to South America is the slalomist team, on 10 September. “The snow situation in Ushuaia is excellent, given the abundant snowfalls of the South American winter, which is why many nations have decided to undertake the journey. There will be a good movement of people but we are often used to managing this kind of situations - says Rulfi - We will have Austria (already at work for a few days with more athletes, including Liensberger), Switzerland, Germany and several other smaller teams, however the days of work will be sufficient to carry out the program in the best possible way. We come from a summer different from the past due to the hot climatic conditions, however our organization was not affected too much, in the spring we were able to carry out a good dose of training and therefore there were no big oddities, to perhaps part of the youth teams that have done a slightly lower job, but certainly not their fault. As for the girls of the elite team, they are all in the conditions we expected: Goggia ended last season a bit in trouble due to the knee injury but is back to being balanced on both legs, taking advantage of the dry training period. Brignone had some small knee problems that he had suffered a few years ago and he jumped out again, but for her too it is coming back, she just has to start skiing again with a little more progressivity than the others. Bassino trained without problems, thinking only of concentrating on the table designed for her and it is important ”. "We will do a little bit of everything, try out the new materials, carry out tests and take advantage of the track and weather situations, with a general and individualized program at the same time - continues the blue dt - Without prejudice to the introduction of the first days , we will come to the end with half of the days carried out with an eye to speed and as many dedicated to technical disciplines. A week later the group of multipurpose teams will also arrive, which will see the full-time return of Laura Pirovano, whose physical recovery is completed. Curtoni and his sisters Nadia and Nicol Delago trained well, their group is the one that skied the most on the snow ”. The ambitions are confirmed at a high level after the results of last season, with the silver in the giant and the bronze in the combined of Brignone at the Beijing Olympics, accompanied by the silver of Goggia and the bronze of Nadia Delago in descent, to to which are added the third place of Brignone in the general classification (and first in the supergiant ranking where Curtoni finished second) and the triumph of Goggia in descent if we talk about the World Cup. “The basic concept is that in order to compete for the overall cup classification, you need to be competitive in at least two and a half disciplines. Goggia missed last year in giant, which is why he is giving great attention in recent months. Sofia must have further calm and continuity of performance, starting to think about targeted objectives such as the descent and supergiant rankings, she will do the math at the end of February. Brignone must become a killer in giant and supergiant, further raising the bar. Always be there in the top positions and take advantage of every little chance, then it would mean that he has made the final step. Bassino intends to take back the giant scepter as he did in 2021 and partly also in the past season, where he did not harvest as much as he sowed, but must consolidate more speed ”. All with the aim of reaching the top for the Courchevel Méribel World Championships at the beginning of February: "It is clearly the seasonal junction, but to get there well you have to be competitive even in the previous months", the conclusion if we want to be taken for granted, but decidedly clear, by Rulfi.

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