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The holder of the World Cup of specialties speaks after the cancellation of the opening in Soelden. And the Swiss ski director does not hide: "It is complicated to find a date at least until the new year, at which point it would make little sense to relocate this race".
Saturday 22 October 2022 4 minutes reading time
Disappointment and at the same time the awareness that the maximum has been done to save the first race of the season, but that the female giant on the Rettenbach, at least today, could not have gone on stage in the same conditions for every athlete and especially in safety.
This is the common opinion after a morning spent under rain and snow in Soelden, but there is also a certain pessimism among the insiders of the World Cup, which increases thinking about the situation of the races in Zermatt-Cervinia, on the possibility of relocation to an already very busy schedule, considering that "inventing" a new stage is substantially impossible and adding even a single race to the "doubles" (such as Killington and Sestriere, preceded by two long trips from Finland to the United States in one case and from Canada to Italy in the other) which involve technical tests, is very complicated and according to Walter Reusser, director of alpine skiing at Swiss-Ski, unlikely until the end of 2022.
"There are practically no spaces on the calendar for this recovery - his words to the" Blick "- Perhaps we could think of adding a race to the two in Semmering (December 28-29, considering that after the speed triptych in Sankt Moritz, from 16 to 18 of the month, we will not go to Courchevel as in previous years), but there is the problem of hotel accommodation during the Christmas period. And bringing the situation to the new year would probably make little sense ".
Tessa Worley described herself, to her colleagues at Ski Chrono, "a little frustrated by the cancellation", after confessing that she had recovered well from the flu that hit her mid-week. The winner of the 2022 giant cup will not go to Lech / Zuers for the parallel on November 12th, aiming directly at the North American races: we are talking about the giant and the Killington slalom (November 26-27) and also the speed triptych in Lake Louise of the following week.
“I will train physically and also on skis here in Europe, before leaving around 10 November for the United States (the French national team will also prepare for Copper Mountain, ed). There will therefore still be a whole month of preparation for us ... ”.
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