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The cup leader gave a nice interview to Flavio Vanetti. "Faith deserved the crystal ball, but it's the past and I only think about winning".
Thursday 7 January 2021 5 minutes reading time
It is difficult to get into the heart of Petra Vlhova, but in the columns of the "Corriere della Sera" you can find out more about the secrets of the number 1 of the cup, winner four times in the season and now called to defend the primacy in the fast races of St. Anton. The giant world champion gave an exclusive interview to her colleague Flavio Vanetti, starting from her origins and how she came to play for the crystal ball, already last season, with a very hard work behind her and a team in a large part of Italy which is decisive in its growth. "I didn't expect to do it in a short time and at such a high level, but the turning point was having chosen Livio Magoni as coach - Vlhova's words - After three months it was already clear to me, Livio is certainly tough but he's right. , because only those who work harder than normal emerge.
He himself gave me the concept of cross training, because doing something different helps in your discipline; my brother Boris introduced me to motocross, which improves balance. As did Hirscher and now Kristoffersen himself (or the blue Luca De Aliprandini, just to cite another case, ed). I train my body in so many ways, from cycling to tennis, from kayaking to climbing. And I also play drums with an Italian (to coordinate hands and feet), Paolo Jack Alemanno ”.
Petra indicates in Janica Kostelic “my childhood heroine, when I met her she had already stopped, but I received advice and the situation of my team is similar to what she had, that is a small team. And that's fine, because everything is designed for my growth ".
The transition from technical to fast disciplines? “Like flipping a switch, it's not difficult for me. I have the mental strength to do it, but the disadvantage is to do less targeted training ”.
And if the old controversies with Shiffrin seem to be put aside ("all right, I'm not going to go back to the story"), the Slovak also spoke in the interview about espionage in the ski world ("they even steal the material to study its secrets, but everyone can spy on everyone ”), to categorically exclude posing for a calendar as done in the past, for example, by Julia Mancuso and Anna Veith, and points to Federica Brignone as a model. “If you ask me about the three Italians, I say that Fede is the most complete and I don't want to find excuses for the final of the last World Cup. I would do her a wrong, I reject the concepts of luck or bad luck for the canceled races, she deserved the most points of all.
It's the past, however, and I'm here to win now ”.
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