A "Rocket" for ... 15: the slalom Olympian prepares a new season with many stimuli

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For Giuliano Razzoli the number 15 in the World Cup is approaching: at the Stelvio the first works on the track, you will have to start very fast ...

Thursday 18 June 2020 5 minutes reading time

A "Rocket" for ... 15, as many as the seasons lived in the white circus, from that debut in the slalom on the Gran Risa (yes, when in Alta Badia there was also the race between the rapid gates) of December 2006, at the 2020/21 vintage which will see Giuliano Razzoli play, at 35, still something important. The 2010 Vancouver Olympic champion has many stimuli, he has not hidden his aim to decide until Beijing 2022, when his eventual third participation in the Games (he was not called up for PyeongChang 2018, in one of the toughest moments of his career) would close to perfection the circle of a path so complicated, even from accidents, but of great tenacity and longevity. The slalomista reggiano has started again from the Stelvio, as well as the entire national slalomgigantisti: five days of weather to say the least complicated, then finally today the opportunity to play a good training session. What are your goals towards the next World Cup, hoping that the season will culminate with the world championship event in Cortina (Giuliano's historian at the World Championships is far from good, in the previous six participations)? First of all, to safeguard the top 30 in the specialty WCSL, given that after the great 7th place in Kitzbuehel, the best result obtained last season in a January that had seen Razzoli grow and approach the top on one of his favorite tracks, the outputs of Schladming and Chamonix complicated the plans. The "Rocket" went down again to the thirtieth square (removing Myhrer, withdrawn, it would be 29th in the world), ergo will have to start immediately well from Levi, a slope never too friendly for the villaminozzese, not to risk too much and then aim, as always , on the great classics starting from Campiglio, returned on December 22nd. The Olympian's last podium dates back to January 17, 2016, when he finished Wengen's slalom in second place, behind Kristoffersen and in front of Stefano Gross, just a week before Kitzbuehel's serious injury. 2020/21 will also be the first vintage again complete with Fischer materials available, after the choice to return with the Austrian house in progress, leaving Voelkl in the final of last season (right between Wengen and Kitz), as happened in 2012 when Razzoli separated from Nordica (with which he had obtained the Olympic title and his two cup wins) in December, to land in Fischer and live a path that lasted several years. Fundamental technical certainties to try to fight with the best, even if many things have changed in the meantime, "Luzzo" (Patrick Merlo, the historic skiman) has gone to other shores and competition has increased, even at the '' inside the same blue team with Vinatzer and Maurberger pushing hard. Stimuli, as mentioned, decisive to try again at 35 years played: Razzoli does not give up, if he knows how to get back on a podium we will find out in the coming months.

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