Alpine Skiingworld cup 2020/21
Petra Vlhova is the big favorite for the two Levi slaloms: arriving today in the Finnish town, here's how she prepared not only for the weekend, but for such a special season.
Thursday 19 November 2020 5 minutes reading time
Levi can only be worried about Covid, but it will be the same for every stage of the most complicated World Cup in history, especially after the positivity of Christian Thoma, the head coach of the Swedish team who will face the first two on Saturday and Sunday slalom of the season (isolated as the great leader of the Swedish alpine sector, Lars Melin, who had traveled with him to Finland).
If there is great anticipation for the return of Mikaela Shiffrin, the one who arrives best at this appointment and can be considered the reference for the opening of specialties, it is a Petra Vlhova who has trained since the first day of November on the snow by Suomutunturi, recreating a situation very similar to the one that will be found in the race on the “Levi Black” (also winning the two FIS races held in Finland with ease); today the arrival of the Slovak champion on the competition site, with a precise anti-Covid plan that Livio Magoni himself illustrated to us, after the last slalom training done yesterday. "A true test, we are very confident and in the morning we are on our way to Levi, with the shuttle made available by the organization as I requested - explains the Bergamo technician at the head of Team Vlhova - A need to pass from the Suomutunturi bubble to that of Levi without external contacts.
We have to be very careful and keep Petra isolated: we carried out 3 tests in 13 days and lived in the room, gym and track ”.
Vlhova can fly to the top of the World Cup, with 300 points available in six days and in three races ideal for the 25-year-old from Liptovsky Mikulas, winner of the crystal balls in slalom and parallel last season, even if the next test of Lech (parallel of November 26) will be the only specialty. "Upon our arrival in Levi we will do another Covid test - Magoni continues - and in the hotel with our sanitizing machine we will immediately treat Petra's room, with lunches provided only in the room for the whole weekend".
And on Sunday evening the Slovak star will fly, thanks to the plane made available by personal sponsor Niké (Slovak leader in the betting sector), directly to Munich together with his brother Boris and skiman Gigi Parravicini, to then reach Lech / Zuers and better prepare the appointment in Vorarlberg; the rest of the team, after facing another post-race Covid test, will travel by bus to tackle other thousands of km, as Magonie did by his staff to arrive in Suomutunturi already at the end of October.
Also in this way we fight, with a private team, maximum professionalism and passion, to win the World Cup.
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