Alpine Skiing
The Gran Risa is always one of the stages to expect more from blues, and because it runs into the house, and because it is one of the most beautiful slopes of the circus. For Alex Zingerle that we grew up on the Gran Risa, having resided in La Villa, it is even more. Here's what he told the young blue, promising gigantista of the Italian national team, about his goals for this season.
Friday 20 December 2013 4 minutes reading time
Sunday you race on the Gran Risa slope in your home town where you debuted last year at the World Cup. How does it feel to compete in your home?
Surely there is more emotion to race in my home. It's a race that I've ever seen since I was a child and that gave me the dream of becoming a skier because I saw them as they came down the athletes of the World Cup. It is a particular emotion.
Being a track that you know since you were a child, what do you expect from this race?
After the last race I saw that I can go and play my good qualifying. So I hope to get into the 30 to ski well as I am doing in training, to bring everything into the race and then we'll see what comes.
In the giant Val d'Isere have won your first World Cup points, finishing in 18th place. This year, you feel more ready than last season?
Yes, I feel much more prepared. I trained better. Last season I did a few races to do a little 'experience, to see how it worked the World Cup and this year I feel more mature even though my priority remains the European Cup.
In slalom we will have a chance to see you?
I'm working on, in the European Cup I'm not going to hurt. This year I trained more in the giant to be more ready in this discipline, but I hope to continue well in slalom.
You are a young athlete struggling with the first races of the World Cup. There is an athlete of the Italian team that inspires you and gives you advice?
I am inspired by all those who are on the team because everyone has strengths, although at the moment there's Ted Ligety is to be taken as an example.
Sochi Olympics. The rule says that you have to be invited to get or result in the first six or two hits in the first eight. It is a dream to wrestle this season or have other goals?
No, it is my goal to the Sochi Olympics. I think it's almost impossible to get there, so I try to achieve the goals that I have set in the season to go well in the European Cup and pick up their first points in the World Cup.
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