Manfred Moelgg: "Beautiful opportunity to train on my home snow with teammates"

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We had a chat with Manfred Moelgg to return on the third place he won in Levi, his return to the podium after almost three years, and to hear his opinion on the fact that his teammates will train with him to Furkelpass, almost on the door of his house.

Saturday 19 November 2016 3 minutes reading time

"It 'was a great feeling to be back on the podium after so long and after the injury to the Achilles tendon, I was skiing very well in training but in the race you never know what can happen - says Manfred -. Luckily I managed to stay on the podium despite some little mistakes too, which means that the margin to do even better there, and even in giant I think I'm at a good level. All this means that the work pays off. " It then goes on to speak of the training that they will see as the basis for the athletes the residence that they Moelgg in San Vigilio. "This year there are optimal conditions, they were able to snow on the slopes much earlier than in recent years, today (yesterday for the reader, ed) as well as train in the gym I did a few laps in free field, even to regain confidence with skiing, on the track where we will train with the team, that is to Furkelpass. Tomorrow (today for the reader, ed) is expected by the evening then snow will be here my fellow team slalom and giant will sleep all at my residence and then Monday we will be to train the snow until Thursday or Friday. The training schedule of the two groups will be diversified, and there will be someone like Patrick Thaler back from injury will make fewer days on the snow. Will be a good opportunity to train with his friends at my house, surely I will try to give them some tips and advice on how to deal with the workouts. " Then there is Val d'IsÃ¨re: "If you recover the Beaver Creek giant is likely to do on the old track, more like that of Colorado, and on Saturday 10 and Sunday, December 11 we will be on the Face de Bellevarde" concludes Moelgg. And the confirmation of the FIS: Manfred December 4 is in fact far reached played on the giant Oreiller-Killy, on which he also will do the super-G, 2 December, and the descent, December 3, they would have to fight over Colorado.

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