Roberto Nani does not give up: training and races in New Zealand to regain the national team and ... Solden

Excluded from the federal cadres for the 2019/2020 season, the gigantic Livigno resumes from scratch ... or almost.

Saturday 3 August 2019 4 minutes reading time

At the age of 30, Roberto Nani does not want to give up, on the contrary he is already on the track to return to a permanent position in that national team that has seen him excluded, when last spring the staff was defined for the year now at the start. There is no time to lose for the one who, excluding the podium obtained by Florian Eisath in the giant in Alta Badia of December 2016, got the best result in recent years among the blue specialists of wide doors, with that 4th place in Solden 2015 that made everyone think, if we think of the continuity of results obtained by Nani in that period (far from brief), as the reference of the Italian post-Blardone and Simoncelli giant had now become the livignasco. Then the dark, more technically than physically, and a last season that saw him stay dry in the first four giants of the World Cup, before the blue staff definitively excluded him from the convocations for the maximum circuit; things did not go better in the European Cup, indeed, while the only ring dates back to March with a victory in the giant FIS at Abetone. Nani does not score points in CdM from Garmisch 2018 (it was January 28), when he took a 24th place that did not bring him anyway to win the Olympic pass. And now? Results are needed to lower the FIS points, given that even in the event of a call for Solden, which remains the primary objective declared by the Valtellina athlete himself, with the first scheduled Cup giant on the Rettenbach on 27 October, the starting bib it would be very high again. And then Roberto got a good buzz, a bit like Razzoli did last year after having left the top 30 of the specialty WCSL abundantly, and has already flown to New Zealand to train and then face the first races of the 2019 season / 2020. If the Argentine trials of La Hoya, on stage these days, see practically only local athletes as protagonists, the new year will actually start in Coronet Peak, where from August 10th to 13th there will be two slalom races and two FIS giants, valid also for the championships New Zealanders. The Australian New Zealand Cup will start in Mount Hotham, Australia, from the 19th to the 22nd of the month and always with four equally divided technical races, and then continue back to Coronet Peak later this month. For Nani a tour de force to be reborn and demonstrate, since the identity card is anything but yellowed, to be able to return at least to the levels shown, now a long time ago ...

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