A "Rocket" loaded with a thousand for the 17th season in the cup: "I'm very well, I don't think about retirement"

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A "Rocket" loaded with a thousand for the 17th season in the cup: "I'm very well, I don't think about retirement"

Interviewed by "TG Reggio" on the occasion of the recognition received by the Green Cross in his Villa Minozzo, the Olympic champion talked about the next year and a really good preparation. "Last season? It will depend on my level, but I will always think year by year".

It will be his 17th season in the World Cup, from his debut in Alta Badia on 18 December 2006, right on the day of his 22nd birthday, to the year 2022/23 which, for a slalom specialist such as Giuliano Razzoli, will start the next 11 December in Val d''Isère. The "Rocket" is presented with great enthusiasm to another great adventure, as demonstrated by his words, released to the microphones of his colleague Francesco Ferrari of "TG Reggio", on the occasion of the Green Cross party to which the Olympic gold medal 2010 he wanted to participate, in his Villa Minozzo, receiving yet another recognition from the people of his land, the Reggio Apennines. "I am very energized, the preparation is going well and I can handle the loads in training - the words of the blue slalomist, who returned to the podium last January in Wengen, six years after the last time in CdM - The body responds and I am growing ; the goal, like every year, is to do a good preparation to be in shape at the crucial moment of the season ”. The classics in January and of course the world championships in Courchevel Méribel in February. The world championships have never been too lucky for Razzoli, but in the 2021/22 vintage something seems to have changed again in an athlete who has been able to adapt very often in over 15 years of career at the highest levels, so much so that he has found no only the podium but also the constancy to be among the top 15 in the world in the starting lists. "I am very happy with the past season and how I managed to ski - added Il Razzo, who in a special summer experienced two special moments such as the wedding with his Elisa and the inauguration of an important project with the '' family business, Acetaia Razzoli - The goal is always to try to improve, also because standing still is never enough to compete at the top ". An important indication arrives on the future, because it is not certain that Giuliano will leave even after the age of 38, at the end of the challenges he will propose on 2022/23: "We will go on year by year, based on what my body and body will say. to the level that I will be able to maintain every year. This is what will decide the end or the continuation of my career, but now I'm fine and the last season was very positive ”.
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