Lorenzi and the new recipe for the women's blue slalom: "Let's start with humility and determination"

The point with the new coach responsible for the most suffering sector of Italian skiing: "Peterlini aims to return in December, but without haste. The quartet for Levi? The result of evaluations based on summer work, we must grow step by step" .

Friday 11 November 2022 4 minutes reading time

A new restart, with a completely renewed technical staff to try to recover after really difficult years, even more so without the good continuity of results that guaranteed, until the retirement from the competition at the end of the 2020/21 season, the " captain ”Irene Curtoni. The blue women's slalom has been entrusted to Roberto Lorenzi since last spring, with the former head of the men's technical disciplines in Italy who spoke to physi.org a few days before the specialty opening scheduled for 19-20 November in Levi. The Trentino coach will have to do without at least the first three events (Levi's two slaloms and the one on Sunday 27 in Killington) of the team's reference point, Martina Peterlini, working these days on the Finnish snow with Lara Della Mea , Marta Rossetti, Anita Gulli and Vera Tschurtschenthaler, the four blue who will then be at the starting gate on the “Levi Black”. Lorenzi first of all starts from the situation of Peterlini, forced to stop again after having started again in recent weeks following the crack in the left knee, destroyed in December 2021 in that cursed 2nd round of the European Cup slalom in Valle Aurina: "Martina has started physiotherapy after cleaning the cartilage of the left knee three weeks ago - explains the blue technician - Now he has to think about recovering physically and we work so that he returns in December, without speeding up the times, because the fundamental thing is that you regain full physical efficiency. The quartet chosen for Levi is the result of evaluations made on last season and on the basis of summer training. The goal is to present ourselves with the best possible team, to make rankings and return to earn some places in the specialty. We must grow step by step, with humility but at the same time determination, we think about overcoming the cut and doing it constantly. Regardless of the result of a race, we are aware of embarking on a path that is not short and it will take time to get back competitive - continues Lorenzi, thinking long-term for the 2026 Olympic Games project - It will be important to recover girls like Della Mea and Rossetti, who before their respective injuries had shown that they had the qualities to compete at a certain level, we think above all to find consistency in technique, not only be fast but also reliable and solid ”.

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