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Will be four athletes of Slovakia engaged in the Levi weekend in the first slalom of the season. The Slovak team will rely mainly sull''accoppiata female Veronika Velez-Zuzulova and Petra Vlhova.
Friday 11 November 2016 4 minutes reading time
These are the Slovak slalom for Levi:
VELEZ-Zuzulova Veronika (1984) Vlhová Petra (1995)
Zuzulova second last year in the specialty ranking will be one of the main favorite in the race tomorrow. The Bratislava original thirty-two will do just his debut season in Levi, places that in previous seasons has never given the joy of the podium but never as quest''anno Veronika is aware of being able to overturn past results, "in Finland is very cold there are -16 degrees - debuted at the Slovak sport.sk site - I would say that there are ideal conditions to start the season. the covering is quite hard even if we do not know if it will be completely frozen. Here in Levi right now I are pushing ever more than fifth place therefore do not know whether or not to consider it a friendly track. "
The winner of the two Flachau slalom last year also explained the kind of preparation that led over dell''estate, "I trained with the girls of the French team as has happened in the last two years. The summer training has took place without major hitches, and as usual I did my best. I feel in good physical condition and I can not 'wait to see it all in the race. "
About the enemy to beat Veronika has no doubts, "The 'athlete to beat is definitely Mikaela Shiffrin, but they are very strong even Frida Hansdotter, Šárka Strachová and Wendy Holdener - the Slovak though not afraid of rivals, indeed he said he He feels in very good shape - right now I can safely say you are in a better physical condition last year. "
In addition to Velez-Zuzulova Slovakia that Levi for the first time in history will have two athletes in the first starting subgroup, you can count on the great talent of Petra Vlhova. The twenty-one of Liptovský Mikuláš that quest''anno is followed by the technical Italian Livio Gizzards letterlamente could explode this season. Petra actually had already shown great things last winter when the astonishment put them all in row by winning the slalom in Aare and later winning two more podiums.
The "cure" Gizzards could launch Vlhová un''altra in size and less than a month ago in Soelden is the early signs are already glimpsed ...
A male level, the situation is quite different. The aim sull''esperienza Slovak team of Adam Zampa to gather enough the first points of the season.
PAW Adam (1990) Falat Matej (1993)
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