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Tomorrow in Bansko (start at 10.00) the youth world championship takes place. The Brescia player, starting with bib number 5, is among the favorites despite the back problems. Della Vite and Bendotti are also in the race.
Tuesday 2 March 2021 3 minutes reading time
Off to the 2021 junior world championships in Bansko, very special due to the Covid emergency, with many absences and a program that includes only super-g, giant and slalom races, both for men and women.
The boys will start on the track on Wednesday for the appointment with speed, set at 10.00 (11.00 local time): it will be the French Guerlain Favre (born in 2000) to inaugurate the world championship on the Bulgarian snow, with three Azzurri immediately on the hunt of medals and Giovanni Franzoni among the big favorites for the title. The 2001 from Brescia will start with bib n ° 5, before the Austrian Dornauer and then waiting to see dangerous athletes like the Swiss Luetolf and the Slovenian Aznoh (bibs 10 and 11). Three blues at the start, with Filippo Della Vite who will start with No. 18 and Matteo Bendotti with 24.
"I am quite well, even if my back is not yet completely in place - the words on the eve of Franzoni, also protagonist of the senior World Championship in Cortina with three races disputed and the 14th place in the giant, but above all constantly in front of the European Cup - I'm here to go to the medal and I'll have three chances: I'll give everything, as I did in Cortina too ”.
Filippo Della Vite, 19 year old from Bergamo of the Fiamme Oro, is back from the 16th place obtained in the first of the two giants of the World Cup right in Bansko, on the day of his first points in the maximum circuit. "I will ski at all, as I always do, without setting myself the goal of a medal - declared the blue through the press office of Energiapura - Of course only that counts at the Junior World Championships and if it arrives I will be very happy, otherwise I will know to have skied to the maximum anyway ".
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