The rebirth in Solda and the desire for national team: here is Carlotta Saracco. "I started from the basics with dad"

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The 21-year-old Piedmontese started the season, out of the blue squares, with three podiums in the FIS on the South Tyrolean snows. The reasons are many ...

Tuesday 17 November 2020 5 minutes reading time

She has a strong desire to return to the cadres of a national team where, among the most anticipated talents, she had already reached the age of 16. Carlotta Saracco has started almost from scratch, she who at 21 can still give so much to Italian skiing, after a difficult season at the European Cup level and with the need to manage herself, but with the enormous help of her father Roberto , who left the leadership of the national team of World Cup gigantists to follow his children in the best possible way (including Edoardo, born in 2003, already a medalist at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne last January). With three podiums, two of which in giant before the success in the final slalom, in the four FIS races held last week in Solda in the presence of many blue of the national team and foreign athletes of World Cup level, Carlotta really started her journey in the best possible way to demonstrate something important, she who started practically on the snow at the age of two, in a family where you eat bread and ... skiing. With the Atomic press office, she is a loyal member of the Redster Team, the ''99 Piedmontese class talked about itself after this sprint start, starting however from its origins and great results at the youth level: "It all arrived in very naturally, in the Junior category the victory in the Longines Future Ski Champions in Val d''Isère and in the Youth category the call-up to the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, made me experience the world of the great up close for the first time ”. Then the national team at the age of 16, “a great satisfaction before the second injury stopped me again, but the exclusion from the blue tour is being seen as a stimulus to show my best. Being out of the team, I was able to train from the beginning of July because in June the glaciers were reserved only for national teams. It was a "step by step", I returned to the technical basics followed by my dad and for a few periods by the Army Sports Center, to which I am very grateful because even in this difficult period he believes in us and gives us the opportunity to continue skiing". Always with Atomic, “it was love at first sight”, Carlotta has the European Cup as an imminent goal, “to earn a place on the continental circuit and show myself off. The start of the season was positive, despite the difficult period we took home four races with excellent conditions, on technical tracks. I have to keep growing and improving, finding more and more continuity and raising the performance ”.

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