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The Genoese, 10th in Soelden in 2009, "commits" ideally suit and helmet to tell us how you live hours of the eve and describe the track meter by meter as if it were still in the race ...
Monday 21 October 2013 6 minutes reading time
Finally starts! Following the end of March in Lenzerheide, the World Cup begins a new season. As always, the circus begins from Solden and Rettenbach. For men and women is the appointment with more unknowns throughout the year. After months spent among glaciers, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and even glaciers, athletes finally have occasion to wear the chest that count and plunge headlong into a very intense season.
What's it like in the days before the big opening? Teams, especially female ones, they come in the Austrian resort earlier in the week and from that moment began the first phase of "spying." In the famous "Fridge" in fact take place all the training and pre-race on the first lap on the anchor you can see all the heads of athletes turn to see who is going down between the posts to assess the conditions of form, is covered by injuries, technical innovations and quant & rsquo ; another. It is not only a time of study of the opponents but also a way to review opponents / friends who share the same life and, therefore, you can also see many hugs, pats on the back and smiles.
After the first few days of acclimatization, Friday for women comes the first official appointment: the skiing track. Approximately 10 From all the athletes find themselves at the start where he took a first competing to be among the first to be able to test the water . The Rettenbach already in free skiing, suggests that there is no joking matter: if the first part is used to find the right feeling the change of slope on the wall takes your breath for a moment even the most experienced athletes. In summer, in fact, as we train the best is almost impossible to find a slope so steep, and especially so long. The skiing on the track, however, we also need to make a final choice for athletes about the set-up to use. Tend to be made two laps on the track, the more adventurous can make even three, where they use the two "eligible candidates" racing skis. Often, in fact, is the track and the feelings that you have, to enshrine what is the most suitable ski to use, especially early in the season.
You arrive, so, Saturday and the big event. The survey confirms the official start of the season, you start to feel the tension rise, the track until the day before sparse, is filled with banners and sponsors. The start is conquered by skiman that create little boxes for their athletes. It comes, therefore, to the race itself. Departing drops a magical silence. Radios are lowered and using headphones to not disturb the competitors in the early stages of concentration. In the distance you hear the voice of the speaker and the only sound that breaks this moment is the "beep" of the gate, a sound that scares and at the same office.
It 'time to leave: in front of the first floor doors, easy, crucial to find the right feeling. Five, four, three ... it begins. The first part goes pretty fast, and as you get closer to the first wall is expected to feel the skis cut the bottom of compact. First change of slope and enter in a part in which it is essential to have the right timing, the doors run fast and like magic you find yourself on steep slopes. The sensations, in this part, are never good. You always have the feeling of holding, to make mistakes, but not having the time to think you are in the plan. The legs begin to be felt, but the crowd noise that increases as you approach helps to bite the bullet.
The plan is very long, eternal. The goal is only one, to be fast. You search for the location, it is believed to hold the skis flat as long as possible and then here it is, the arrival. A look at the board and ...
Minus five ... Solden is coming ...!
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