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An investigation by "Blick" on the problems linked to the summer-autumn work of sprinters. Walter Reusser unveils an important deal on the horizon.
Wednesday 12 August 2020 4 minutes reading time
The difficulty of training in this particular period also for the world of skiing, considering the impossibility for anyone to take advantage of the winter conditions between South America and New Zealand, will lead many athletes, especially fast disciplines, to have more or less disadvantages compared to to colleagues from other countries.
In all this, as the Swiss newspaper “Blick” analyzed, Switzerland has the advantage of being able to manage the work on the glaciers at home, between Zermatt and Saas-Fee, clearly with a priority over other national teams. For example, Thomas Dressen's Germany, after starting on the snows of the Stelvio, was only able to train in the shadow of the Matterhorn last week: “Without South America, only in Zermatt can you do quality work on the descent level ( with heats of 1''20 ", ed) - explains Andy Evers, head coach of speed at the German home - Now we will have to find solutions because the priority, rightly, is for the Swiss".
And Sepp Brunner himself, with his Wunderteam guys in Zermatt for a week (until 18 August), will then have to come up with something until October: "The Austrian glaciers guarantee us thirty-second descents - his words at the" Blick ”- and the current conditions are far from good. Switzerland, at the moment, has a real advantage ”.
Walter Reusser, director of alpine skiing at Swiss-Ski, revealed that "we will have a preferential lane for the nations with which there is a certain collaboration, for example Italy if in exchange we get the opportunity to train on the world track. of descent, the weeks preceding the world championship event in Cortina ”.
So here we will probably see Paris and companions in Zermatt especially in September and October. The jet from Val d''Ultimo, in this regard, explained that "the topic does not concern me also because it will still take a few weeks before returning to the skis after the injury, but I hope that in the autumn the Swiss will grant us some training in Zermatt ”.
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