Alpine Skiingworld cup 2020/21
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Word to those who will be protagonists tomorrow on the Rettenbach. Brignone: "I don't feel more responsibility". Goggia: "I'm not at the level of the best in giant, but I work hard".
Friday 16 October 2020 4 minutes reading time
A quiet eve, in the Soelden bubble that has welcomed the blue giant stars of the World Cup opening yesterday.
On Saturday on the Rettenbach the new season starts, with Federica Brignone who will clearly have all eyes on her, she holds the absolute crystal ball and that of a giant. "As always, the first match is a lottery because we do not know the form of our opponents - said the 30-year-old from La Salle to Physi.org - As far as I'm concerned, it was a different summer than usual for known events related to Covid-19, but we still managed to train with excellent continuity.
I don't feel the weight of responsibility, I'm ready to get back on the game to raise the bar, knowing that repeating will be very difficult, but I'll try anyway ".
Marta Bassino got on the podium (her first career) in Soelden in 2016 and aims to repeat the extraordinary 2019/2020 season: “It's a track that I like, we have no references but it will be an equal condition for all - words from Cuneo - We are at the gates of an important season and I feel further grown in every aspect ”.
It will be a bit more difficult for Sofia Goggia, but the Bergamo-based woman spent a lot of time in the summer to get back to the top in this specialty too. "They are not yet at the level of the best, but I am working to rediscover the sensations of a few seasons ago also in this discipline". At his side the twenty-year-old countryman Ilaria Ghisalberti, at the first call in the World Cup. “Obviously I don't know this track and I'm only here to try to learn as much as possible. I thank the team for giving me this opportunity, the only thing I can promise is that I will fight to the best of my current possibilities ”.
At the start of the race there will also be Laura Pirovano, Luisa Bertani, Valentina Cillara Rossi, Lara Della Mea and the returning Roberta Melesi, who in Soelden won the first points of her career last year, before getting injured in training at Copper Mountain and skip the rest of the season.
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Giant slalom Female Soelden (AUT)
BASSINO Marta
BRIGNONE Federica
VLHOVA Petra
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