Walter Hlebanya takes stock of the training of Latin American men's Swiss

The technical director of the Swiss men's team is satisfied for the month of workouts in Ushuaia for the athletes of the technical disciplines and ChillÃ¡n to those of fast races

Tuesday 17 September 2013 3 minutes reading time

The men's Swiss Alpine skiing has completed the preparation'' in the southern hemisphere winter snow, which as you know is very important in view of the season about to start. The team was a month in South America, dividing his time between Argentina and Chile "Both in Ushuaia is in ChillÃ¡n and we trained very well - said the head of the men's team Walter Hlebanya -. The slopes were not always hard, icy but we have prepared well on winter snow. '' Before the start of the season we have time to recover the'' training that we could not carry on firm ground: we have to get'' s already in seasonal conditions to ski fast! " This means that athletes will conduct additional training on the glaciers of Saas Fee and Zermatt. Naturally workouts of the various groups have had different modes. "All'' start all focused on the technical disciplines in Ushuaia while the racers were then transferred to ChillÃ¡n to specific training on speed, others have remained in Ushuaia to prepare for slalom and giant slalom," says Hlebanya. Athletes luckily they're all in good health, as pointed out Hlebanya: "We are happy that no one was seriously injured, so everyone will be able to return to training in the fall on the glaciers of the house (on September 23-25 â€‹â€‹in Zermatt, ed) after a short period of rest. past few days in fact everyone has heard the tension due to the workload and fatigue. "

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