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"La Gazzetta dello Sport" rekindles the fuse regarding the 2nd round of the giant yesterday, with Brignone and Bassino lying on the track on the design of Baldissarutti, technician of Team Vlhova directed by Bergamo. Faith does not look for excuses: "Livio may have tried, but it is not the tracing to get you out".
Tuesday 15 December 2020 4 minutes reading time
There was no talk of anything else, between the first and second heat of the giant number 2 of Courchevel.
How will Team Vlhova track, without Petra in the race? Design of the decisive heat entrusted to Matteo Baldissarutti, a very good technician from Friuli who has been working for some time in the staff led by Livio Magoni. And here is an arrhythmic track, taking advantage of the counter-slopes, with fast sections alternating with hairpin bends. Raise your hand, however, who did not have fun, beyond the two fatal mistakes for the blue, costing the possible victory first to Federica Brignone and then to Marta Bassino. And here we have returned to talk about the anti-blue trap, or rather in general for the three athletes in command of the 1st heat, including Shiffrin, since they are direct rivals of Vlhova in an absolute World Cup perspective.
Also because Livio Magoni himself, with his usual frankness, communicated in no uncertain terms that he “tried to trace to throw someone out. Unfortunately it is part of our job, when the athlete does not do his ", referring to the departure of Vlhova.
The Gazzetta dello Sport, in a piece by Simone Battaggia, raised the question by asking Gianluca Rulfi himself, the technical director of the Italian national team who dismissed the case. “Magoni says this out of sensationalism, but the layout was beautiful, full of arrhythmic pieces in which you had to adapt. Having such tracks in the World Cup: they help to exalt the strongest female skiers ".
The same protagonists direct on the track have not found excuses, indeed. “Let's say that Livio tried, even if he usually always traces this way - the words of Federica Brignone - It's not the tracing that gets you out, but how you interpret it”.
And Marta Bassino herself added, regarding her fall: “There was a sign, maybe I was too inclined. Suddenly I found myself on the ground, I didn't even notice it ”.
The war for the cup has just begun, next battles on the terrain of speed, from Friday to Sunday in Val d''Isère.
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