Blue riders for a week in Zermatt before leaving for Chile

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From today and until next Wednesday, the blue riders Emanuele Buzzi, Peter Fill, Christof Innerhofer, Matteo Marsaglia and Dominik Paris, who are added for the occasion Davide Cazzaniga, NicolÃ² Molteni and Alexander Prast, are on the Swiss glacier in Zermatt, week Prologue in sight of departure for South America.

Wednesday 23 August 2017 4 minutes reading time

The head of the blue lightweight team Alberto Ghidoni, on fisi.org, makes the current point of summer preparation: "The trip to Chile will be divided into two trunks," says Brescia coach. "A first part composed by Henri Battilani, William Wood, Matteo De Vettori, Werner Heel and Florian Schieder will leave tomorrow in the direction of La Parva, 3000 meters, where athletes will take part on two downhills and a SuperG worthy of the South American Cup. There are important FIS points that will be useful again During the season, around 8 September, the guys will go to Santiago de Chile for a couple of days, then head to Nevado Valley, where they will be from 11 to 21 September, and race to El Colorado in other fast tests Valle Nevado will find the various Buzzi, Fill, Innerhofer, Marsaglia and Paris, which in the meantime will have arrived there. This second group will stay on site until September 20th, then d We will eclipse according to the weather conditions where we will be heading for another ten days, but will definitely not be in Portillo where snow is missing. " In Valle Nevado there will be sessions of giant and slalom, while the longer skis will be used in the second part of the rally. "The guys are all fine enough," Ghidoni continues, "this year we skied until spring enough, so we decided not to go too much on the glaciers in the summer, where conditions have not been ideal either because of the heat The two rallies at Stelvio were sufficient at the end of July and mid-August, but we had a good period of athletic training at Formia and in the coming days in Zermatt we will finish some technical details. " Finally, Ghidoni analyzes individual conditions. "Innerhofer has skied so much in the spring, and in July, he feels good enough. Knee and back are under control, he has to continue like this. Fill has a bit of discomfort in the lower back area and we are monitoring the situation but it should not be anything serious, While Paris does not like skiing too much in the summer, but when it starts it must be kept in check. Marsaglia will do three days at Zermatt, clearly the preparation is not optimal but the knee has not swelled up and is a great sign. To the right ankle, ndr) that will lose the very first part of the season but we count on having it for the most of the month of January that eventually coincides with the most important part of the season and also the young are working well. "

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