Bassino in great shape for the opening: "Ready for everything". Brignone: "I don't feel at the top, but here ..."

The two blue tips speak on the eve of the giant on Soelden's Rettenbach, which risks being affected by bad weather. With the Cuneo and Valle d'Aosta to via Pichler, Melesi, Zenere, Ghisalberti and Platino.

Friday 21 October 2022 5 minutes reading time

The meeting with the press at the Sunny Hotel in Soelden, with the feeling that both are well and the preparation, as the technicians also confirm, was the right one to achieve results already on the occasion of the opening, where not by chance they already triumphed once each. A few hours from the Soelden giant that will open the 2022/23 World Cup, Marta Bassino and Federica Brignone talked about each other, waiting to receive their starting bib (among the top 7) and the latest news on a weather that will be crucial for the challenge on the Rettenbach, considering that wind and rain are raging on the glacier that dominates the Oetztal valley. With the Cuneo-based, winner of the first seasonal giant in 2020 right in front of Fede, who in turn rejoiced in 2015 for the first time ever in CdM, and the Aosta Valley here that Karoline Pichler will also present themselves at the starting gate, in Italy. , Roberta Melesi, Asja Zenere, Elisa Platino and Ilaria Ghisalberti. "I worked very well this summer both from the point of view of athletic training, and on skis with training in Argentina in which we gave so much continuity - the words of Bassino, given in great condition even in the last meeting in Val Senales - Also in this period I am skiing well, we will see how it will be tomorrow but I will try to stay focused on myself even in case of delays, movements or other. In the last season I grew up; I came from the previous one which went very well, there was a little bit of disappointment but I take everything to keep going, to ski hard and to get the best out of every opportunity ". Federica Brignone, after a first part of summer work conditioned by a leg problem, has now been able to put together, from Ushuaia onwards, many days of quality on the snow, even if the three-time Olympic medalist admits that she still does not feel 100% in terms of confidence on skis: “It is my thirteenth presence here in Soelden, a track that has given me so much satisfaction. I get there happy to leave again, we had a great month of training in Argentina with optimal snow and weather. We have put a lot of hay on the farm, even though I still don't feel at the top. Let's see what comes out, I don't put pressure on myself because the season is very long, it's only the first race and there will be times and ways to get to a result ”.

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