Ilka Stuhec is the goal of the three-time world championship downhill: "Yes, I bet everything on Cortina 2021"

The Slovenian, back from a very difficult post-injury season, will hunt for the third consecutive world title as the main objective of a 2020/21 vintage that promises to be particular.

Saturday 18 April 2020 3 minutes reading time

Ilka Stuhec experienced a decidedly complicated 2019/2020, without being able to find the sensations he had experienced up to the new injury suffered in February 2019 in Crans-Montana, just a few days after the second world triumph downhill in Are. And it is precisely the world championship, two years after that in Sweden and four from Sankt Moritz 2017, is the great goal of the Slovenian downhill rider in view of the next vintage. She confessed it to "24ur.com", thinking about her prospects after a season without podiums and with only two top ten descents, sixth in Garmisch and seventh in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. "Yes, I'm going to Cortina 2021 but, at least for now, I don't want to think about it too much and I focus on an already complicated preparation of his". Stuhec had planned to test the material at the end of the season on the snow of Santa Caterina Valfurva, but obviously everything has vanished due to the restrictions related to the Coronavirus: “It is a challenge for everyone, even the members of my team, in the meantime I work on my fitness - explains Ilka - In perspective there is the risk of having disadvantages, in addition to the problems related to the budget for an athlete like me ". In fact, the Slovenian has a private team, but will have to find a way to train her best: “Without glaciers in Slovenia it will be difficult, in Austria and Switzerland there will be more opportunities between summer and autumn, but nobody knows at this moment when it will be possible to return to the snow. The important thing now is to feel good in health and to be able to prepare physically, the rest will be seen. "

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