Lots of snow outside, lots of indoor gym for the blue before training in Valtellina

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The start of the meeting scheduled in Santa Caterina Valfurva has been delayed by a few hours: speed training sessions up to 6 before moving to St. Anton, where the first test of the very tough descent on the "Karl Schranz" will take place on Thursday 7th.

Sunday 3 January 2021 4 minutes reading time

While the slalomists are ready to face the Zagreb challenge, the group of blue sprinters prepares the next World Cup event in Valtellina. Weather conditions do not help these days, so the training scheduled in Valtellina for Federica Brignone, Sofia Goggia, Marta Bassino, Laura Pirovano, Elena Curtoni, Francesca Marsaglia, Nadia Delago, Verena Gasslitter and Roberta Melesi has been slightly delayed , or those who we will see protagonists on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 in the downhill and super-g of St. Anton, with the tests on the “Karl Schranz” starting on Thursday 7 January. The first three days of the week, with an improvement also foreseen in Santa Caterina Valfurva, will therefore see the group of Rulfi working on fast disciplines, to face what for many athletes is an absolute novelty like the Austrian track, considering that we do not compete there. since January 2013. Also on Saturday, the same Bassino and Goggia worked in the gym, with the Cuneo woman in her Borgo San Dalmazzo and the Bergamo woman in the center of Verona that has been hosting her for some time. If Marta goes to the attack to look for heavy points even in speed, having sacrificed the slalom of Zagreb and Flachau (which will arrive two days after the super-g of St. Anton, while she will already be focused on the giants of Maribor of the week- end following), Sofia will have to defend the red bib of the downhill leader, shared with Corinne Suter after the one-two in Val d''Isère. And Federica Brignone? Ready to fight it all out even downhill, trying to find the best sensations it seemed to have before the fall on the Oreiller-Killy, but without forgetting the other blue awaits protagonists of a weekend that will open a very intense month with the speed that will lead up to the Garmisch races, the last pre-World Cup.

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