Giuliano Razzoli and that day in Vancouver, ten years have passed: "I had the push of the people"

On February 27, 2010, in the Olympic slalom, the last five-circle triumph of an Italian skier for men. The memory and ... the future of the "Rocket".

Thursday 27 February 2020 3 minutes reading time

He is the last Olympic champion in Italian men's alpine skiing, but after ten years he has not yet given up and aims for his third participation in five circles, in two years in Beijing. Giuliano Razzoli celebrates today the ten years since that triumph in the slalom of the Vancouver Games: it was February 27, 2010 and, always in Canada 22 years after Alberto Tomba in Calgary 1988, the "Rocket" wrote its most beautiful page. He was only 25 years old and everyone predicted many other successes: only two arrived in the World Cup, one before and one after that day in Whistler, but beating Kostelic and Myhrer in the most important race is enough and advances to run back with a smile . The slalomist who came from the Apennines did it to the microphones of Margherita Grassi, a colleague from Telereggio who joined him in his Villa Minozzo. "The Olympics is there once every 4 years, you also feel the air you breathe different - the story of that day - There were four hours between the first and second heats, I was also able to sleep 40-45 minutes. I felt extra support, something more than the others knowing that many people were following me and that there were ten thousand people in the square at Villa Minozzo. Staying in people's memories is special, perhaps coming from the Apennines was more difficult and more passion was needed ". Now Giuliano looks at the 2021 Cortina World Championships and the 2022 Beijing Games, where he would like to end his adventure: â€œI would also like to stay in the world of skiing in the post career, but in the meantime I am thinking of giving my best to finish my best. I still have clear objectives in mind. "

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