A group of blue slalom players starting off for South America

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Tomorrow there will be the first departures for South America of the blue skies of Alpine skiing.

Thursday 10 August 2017 4 minutes reading time

The first to embark on the plane will be four of the members of the Italian Slalom and Giant World Cup team, namely Stefano Gross, Simon Maurberger, Manfred Moelgg and Tommaso Sala, who will remain until September 5 in the usual destination each year in summer For preparation on winter snow, Ushuaia, Argentina. The technical staff following the boys will be composed by the manager of the slalom gigantists Stefano Costazza, by technicians Giancarlo Bergamelli, Luca Caselli, Patrick Merlo, Andrea Noris, Daniele Simoncelli, Andrea Viano, Michael Wallner and doctor Annalisa Bosio. The group should also include Patrick Thaler, whose departure will be established in the next few hours. "We will find better conditions than last year - says Stefano Costazza at fisi.org - although there has been rain in the last two days but who is already in Ushuaia tells that the slopes are all open and that they can all use We start with the first four or five, working a bit more on the slalom, we are at Cerro Castor so we can take full advantage of the day, as a base, we will work on giant and slalom, maybe on two shifts , Will also depend on the conditions of the snow day after day When the other giants arrive (the 22 will leave Giovanni Borsotti, Luca De Aliprandini, Roberto Nani and Riccardo Tonetti, ndr) we will privilege the giant, even if we do not forget the slalom. All the time in Ushuaia, while the giants will divide between Ushuaia and Valle Nevado. Eisath, on the other hand, will leave on September 1st and arrive directly to Valle Nevado. The general condition is good, Or well in the indoor session. The only one who has problems is Razzoli, who has decided not to work on the right curve but to do therapy. Let's rest on the skies around September 20th. A positive note comes from Borsotti, much physically improved. In the same period we will find the French and Slovenes. We will certainly look for some comparison, especially with the French, and that will be important for measuring the growth of the condition. Everything will be between 18 and 22 days of skiing, so we are sure we can do a good job. "

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