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Almost all of the Equipe de France World Cup teams are on the Grande Motte glacier. Worley also trains for the parallel.
Thursday 29 October 2020 3 minutes reading time
A new lockdown, active from Friday until next December 1st, the one that was announced on Wednesday evening by Emmanuel Macron.
The President of the French Republic therefore intervened to contain the effects of the pandemic, while leaving schools and a whole series of work activities open; at the same time, Val d''Isère itself announced the impossibility of opening the ski lifts for the scheduled date of 28 November, but work is being done to ensure the smooth running of the Critérium de la Première Neige, this year in version maxi with double men's stage on 5-6 and 12-13 December (two giants on the Face de Bellevarde in the first weekend, downhill and super-g on the Oreiller-Killy for the second) and the women's triptych (18-20 December) with two runs and a super-g. In between, two giants for women in Courchevel on 12-13 of the month.
Then the training of the transalpine World Cup teams continues, practically engaged in a block on the Grande Motte glacier in Tignes; on the track since Monday (under the snow, before the good weather arrived) Worley and companions to train on giant and parallel, already thinking about the return to the race in the only specialty race scheduled for women on 13 November in Lech / Zuers, followed the next day by the men's test.
And besides the slalom races, with a Nastasia Noens expected to return, and the group of sprinters, Alexis Pinturault also arrived in Tignes last Tuesday; 4th in Soelden, one of the great favorites for the absolute World Cup has dedicated himself to slalom and giant, but there is also a speed training with his teammates, after last week they had completed training on the Grande Motte. slalomists led by Clément Noel.
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