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The Piedmontese is ready to return to a World Cup slalom after two years. The veteran Curtoni, unique in the 15: "I want a season as a protagonist"
Friday 20 November 2020 5 minutes reading time
In Levi everything is ready for the women's double slalom on Saturday and Sunday (10.15 am and 1.15 pm the times of the two heats for both competition days, with live TV on Raisport and Eurosport) which will restart the World Cup.
Today the wind forced to postpone the skiing of the expected protagonists on the Levi Black for a couple of hours; the race track has been crossed in recent days, the snow is hard but not frozen, the forecasts speak of favorable weather on Saturday and some probable snowflakes for the second round.
Seven blue at the starting gate of a double that will sanction the return of Mikaela Shiffrin to the maximum circuit, while the absence of the Swedes forced to quarantine after the positive case that hit Christian Thoma stands out. At the FISI press office, the girls from Guadagnini analyzed what could happen over the weekend, with their eve lived between the preparation at the beginning of the week in Cervinia and the arrival on Wednesday in Finland. "The first career red bib I wore after Soelden gave me great emotion, but now I'm focused on these two slaloms and the parallel of Lech / Zuers - explains CdM leader, Marta Bassino, who returns to a slalom at almost two years old from the last appearance in Killington - I feel good, I'm ready to leave again, this month's stop from the Austrian giant has served to devote myself above all to these two specialties and I feel that I am finding the right set-up even among the narrow poles.
The preparation was excellent despite the changed programs, I want to continue to keep this level. Slalom is a discipline in which we have been struggling for a few years, but I recently had the opportunity to train with the young girls and they have a great desire to get involved, I'm sure that good results will come in the future. And I'm also happy for the return of Mikaela Shiffrin, she was missing from our environment, we can't wait to have her back at the starting gate. We are lucky in this delicate period because we still manage to do our job despite the rules to be observed ",
Irene Curtoni is the veteran of the group and the only blue to start in the 15: "I am motivated for a season as a protagonist, last winter I made the choice to abandon the giant to devote myself exclusively to slalom in this final phase of my career, because I am still in the first group of merit and because I think that in this specialty I can still aim for the podium.
Levi's track certainly does not enhance my characteristics, but I'm not here to be an extra. The preparation went well, we can finally think exclusively of sport in a difficult period for everyone ”.
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