The French finish training in La Parva with Odermatt and Kilde: injury to Allegre

Return from Chile for Clarey and his companions, but one of the tips of the transalpine speed team suffered a shoulder contusion and a problem in the thumb of his hand, without the need for surgery. Season already over for the young German Nadine Kapfer.

Friday 9 September 2022 3 minutes reading time

The speed blues arrived in La Parva last weekend, while Dominik Paris continued his work on the Argentine snows of Ushuaia. In Chile, however, the downhill skiers of the Equipe de France led by Johan Clarey have already worked for over three weeks, from mid-August onwards, who, at almost 42 years old (he will celebrate them in January), is heading for another season with the goal of the Courchevel Méribel World Championships at home, after the amazing Olympic silver in Beijing 2022. As director Xavier Fournier-Bidoz admitted to "Ski Chrono", his boys found ideal conditions in La Parva, where the transalpines trained together with Germans (including Thomas Dressen expected to return), Slovenians and Swiss, with Marco Odermatt on the track as well as Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who chose the Chilean location for this very important preparation block. The only negative note of the work in South America, the injury occurred to Nils Allegre who fell in training and suffered a major contusion on his right shoulder, as well as a sprain to the thumb of his left hand, but without the need for surgery and with the possibility of joining his teammates for the next meeting, scheduled for October 4th and for a week in Zermatt, essential in view of the speed opening at the end of October on the “Gran Becca”. Meanwhile, bad news from Germany regarding the women's speed team; the young (born in 2000) Nadine Kapfer, 5 World Cup appearances, the last of which at the end of January in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, broke her crusader knee in training in Saas-Fee. Unfortunately, the season of the unfortunate Nadine is already over even before starting.

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