Patrick Thaler: "I gave everything." Claudio Ravetto: "Glass still half empty"

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The statements by the 35 year-old South Tyrolean Patrick Thaler, sixth in the slalom in Levi, always very shiny and analysis of the team's technical director Claudio Ravetto blue male. Statements made by the Press Office of the Italian Winter Sports Federation and we thank them.

Sunday 17 November 2013 3 minutes reading time

Patrick Thaler is satisfied after his sixth place, but do not hide the fact that you could not even aim higher. "I'm happy because I gave it all and I had a good race - says the'' blue Sarn - I'm just sorry for the two mistakes I made, without whom I could be a little higher and maybe'' aim for the podium. Anyway, the'' error there is. I was very quiet and concentrated on the first heat, I knew I had to do in the race and the'' I did. " Thaler is the first blue (including women) to achieve the minimum for the Olympic qualifiers. But the'' expert policeman does not want to run. "Not sure this will be enough for sixth place going to the Olympics, I did the bare minimum but the races are many and need to improve." The opponents who most impressed you? "The Austrians are very strong, but they skied very well the Norwegians.'s Not hard to make a prediction: Kristoffersen will soon become one of the strongest slalom skiers in the world. Technique and has only 19 years old, a great talent." If Thaler repeated the bell'' start to the season last year (he was fifth in Levi) not so you can tell the other blue. Claudio Ravetto is polished in'' analysis: "Flashes of good skiing to be seen, but the glass is half empty for what concerns the Italian''. Gross is not so free mentally to be able to express themselves to the levels his competence, Moelgg bad in the first better in the second and then the'' output. Deville is back again and also Razzoli is below his standards. From young I was expecting something more.'' We are only at the beginning and we know it But the Austrians are very strong and, even with the change of coach, guide the charts already. We are back. Thaler because Bravo skied without pressure and did what he had to do: it is the first to make place for the Olympics''. Shame because it could also be on the podium. "

Max Valle

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