Alpine Skiingsummer workouts
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Both slalomists and Wunderteam sprinters found ideal conditions in Soelden. The Carinthian plans some speed races.
Saturday 30 May 2020 4 minutes reading time
Five months after the opening of the World Cup which will hopefully be staged on 24-25 October with the two classic giants, the Rettenbach glacier hosted various groups of the Austrian national team for two weeks, which was able to continue the work already started by the gigantists in Kaunertal.
Florian Scheiber, new head coach of the sprinters group, has already been able to test his athletes, with Nicole Schmidhofer, Stephanie Venier and Tamara Tippler on the track in Soelden, in practically winter conditions.
On the other hand, the men's slalom team that, on Friday, also dedicated some time to speed: “We worked on long curves, a technical sequence that will give us a hand, especially in giant size, but it will be also useful for slalom, "head coach Marko Pfeifer explained to the Austrian media. After the injury in January, Christian Hirschbuehl finally got back on his skis, who has already been able to train alongside all the big names, namely Schwarz, Matt, Feller and young people like Pertl and Gstrein.
Particular attention is focused on Marco Schwarz; after the post-injury return season, with the Carinthian who soon found the podium between Adelboden and Kitzbuehel, now we want to raise the bar as in the long-term projects planned for the one who will have to fight for the World Cup, widening again the field at speed to aim in particular at the combined one. “With Marco you need training in all disciplines - Pfeifer's analysis - He has great possibilities and is completely restored on a physical level, but needs many days of snow. So far we are satisfied with what we have done with him. "
Schwarz also simulated a combined one, after having played only the last of the last season on the snow of Hinterstoder (8th place, ed.): "I bet strongly and I could also play some speed races - said the person concerned - With the stop already at the beginning of March, every day of skiing and testing is worth gold and I am physically well, so I try to take advantage of this quality training ".
A bit of super-g for Michael Matt too, who has every intention of throwing himself into the combined towards the next season: “It was an excellent and fun training. It is incredible to have the opportunity to train practically exclusively, it will help us a lot getting closer to the new season. "
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