Alpine Skiingthe 'initiative
Getty Images
The well-known TV commentator hosted three myths of blue skiing during a spectacular live social network. Between memories, anecdotes and a game on the biggest ever ...
Thursday 23 April 2020 4 minutes reading time
Bring together Paolo De Chiesa, Piero Gros, Kristian Ghedina and Peter Runggaldier, mix them between historical films and Stefano Ceiner's conduct, and a simply spectacular evening will come out of it.
This is what happened during a live broadcast on the social channels of De Chiesa, for a "vintage chat" from the 70s of the Avalanche to the Italjet of the 90s, full of splendid moments among these protagonists of the great skiing. If the well-known TV commentator (from this year alongside NEVEITALIA) has joked with Ghedina, reminding him that he has never won that descending cup touched several times, Runggaldier (the only blue to win a super-g crystal ball before Paris) exalted that magical 1994/95 when Alberto Tomba brought the World Cup back to Italy 20 years after Thoeni. "We risked winning all 5 cups, looking back on an incredible thing."
Recalling the quality of sprinters such as Perathoner, Vitalini and Fattori, Paolo De Chiesa himself exalted the technique of a phenomenon such as "Runghi": "It was the only one, before the evolution of the materials arrived after her retirement, to do certain things between downhill and super-g. No one like him to pull the curves. " The Gardena confessed to having grown up "in the myth of Klammer and Plank", while the "Ghedo" expressed his light-heartedness as usual. “Up to the age of 15 I hardly knew who the champions were, I only thought about leaving school as soon as possible to go skiing. Then I started to get passionate about Zurbriggen ... ".
And then off with many videos to remember that Blue Avalanche, with the debut of De Chiesa in Campiglio in 1974, precisely on the day when Ingemar Stenmark obtained the first of his 86 World Cup victories by burning the Piedmontese. And then Pierino Gros triumphed in Kitzbuehel in 1975 in front of Stenmark and De Chiesa himself, with Gros who in December 1972 bathed his debut in CdM winning sensationally in Val d''Isère. “And do you think I would have been in the first starting group with the scores acquired between the Australian races and the European Cup, but the lists were updated only once at the end of the season and I lost many races because of the tracks already destroyed. Real marathons with almost 80 run doors ... ".
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
La nazionale azzurra di combinata nordica perde Greta Pinzani: rotto il crociato del ginocchio sinistro
Combinata nordica: come capitato ad Annika Sieff ad inizio estate, l'Italia si ritrova con un altro grave infortunio, quello della giovanissima tarvisiana che si è procurata il danno in allenamento a Predazzo.
228