From the words of the Beaver Creek dt Plancker and Elena Fanchini on "Raptor"

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BEAVER CREEK (Colorado, United States) - Thanks to the FIS, here are the impressions of the technical director of the Italian women's team, Raimund Plancker after the first training run in Beaver Creek, dominated by Lara Gut. The "camuna" Elena Fanchini 'tells us about his track: "The middle part very steep and technical, speed is quite low."

Tuesday 26 November 2013 3 minutes reading time

And confident'' the director of racing blue Raimund Plancker after solid fourth place by Francesca Marsaglia in the first round of the downhill in Beaver Creek. "Track is new, first rehearsal, someone has committed, others have done reconnaissance, someone has studied the track," says Plancker. "Well, our young people, Marsaglia, Curtoni and Borsotti. Nadia Fanchini and Daniela Merighetti were wrong. Goggia Sofia was held a little.'' Overall, however, it was a good test and we are quite confident in the ability of the blue." The track Raptor has not proved as difficult as it seemed. "It'' sciabilissima," says Plancker. "The plan start and end points require fluency, and our lost something today. Curves In the central part there are important decision that you have to deal with." Elena Fanchini describes as the new track built for the World Cup 2015: "The first part is easy enough, with some bumps and the second part is very steep and technical, there the trail runs very, arriving paves'' s arrival with a final jump. Being so steep in many places, the speed is quite low. On this track it is important to always stand tall with the line and you're never wrong, because there'' is space to recover. My test? Sometimes even well enough, then I missed the line in the middle path, I pretty much stop ... Let's see tomorrow. " Twitter: @ gianmilan76; @ newswintersport.

Gianmario Bonzi

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