Blue ready for the battles of Levi. Peterlini: "I can do well". Bassino: "I improve in slalom"

Over the weekend the first two slaloms of the Women's World Cup, the sensations of coach Devid Salvadori on the eve, in addition to the words of the thirty and the Cuneo woman. Viviani, forced to forfeit, will also miss Killington.

Friday 19 November 2021 5 minutes reading time

An opening, given that there will be two races within 24 hours, exactly like 12 months ago when it was Irene Curtoni who tried to keep up the blue colors in the most “painful” specialty for the women's national team, namely the slalom. After the retirement of the Valtellinese captain, it is a very young group that will compete in Levi on Saturday and Sunday (heats scheduled at 10.30 and 13.30 on both occasions), with an absence of the last hour, as announced this morning from the athlete herself. Serena Viviani, due to the injury to her right elbow in training, will miss not only the two Finnish tests, but also the third slalom of the season on Sunday 28 November in Killington, from the official FISI arrived in the morning. In Levi, in the meantime, the cold returned after a couple of rainy days, with temperatures falling back to around -8 °. "The snow was well prepared - says Devid Salvadori, responsible coach who made his debut in this role with the women's slalom team - The surface is hard but with grip, there is ice because the track staff wet it, the track is regular, I am confident in the group because the girls have trained with great intensity in all these months ". Martina Peterlini boasts, in the appointment beyond the Arctic Circle, two placings between the twentieth and thirtieth position, but this time she aims to grow further and will be the first blue to leave, the only one in the 30 and in fact new point of reference for the team blue, despite the young age. “I am excited and happy to start - explains the thirty - Personally I really like this slope because we find cold snow that suits my characteristics well. This year we had the chance to go up to Finland quite early and we also did a couple of training sessions on the race track which went very well, I am confident of getting a good result. The group is strong and we can't wait to prove it ”. In Finland there will also be Marta Bassino, ready to face the slalom after the giant of Soelden and the parallel of Lech / Zuers. "In the first days following the arrival from Austria I struggled a bit because I had many fewer days of slalom than the other specialties - analyzes the Cuneo - I tried day after day to put together one piece at a time and give continuity to my skiing. I see the races of the next two days as an occasion in which I can get involved in this discipline as well ”. Also returning to the starting gate Marta Rossetti and Lara Della Mea, at the first post-knee injury race last season, as well as Roberta Midali, Anita Gulli and Sophie Mathiou, at her third World Cup race.

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