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Women's World Cup: the latest on the preparation of many big names, with the American sprinter authorized, after knee surgery, to carry out a complete training program. And also Roland Leitinger will restart with the team from the trip to Chile.
Friday 29 July 2022 5 minutes reading time
Working time on the track, despite the limitations to which the various technical staff of the national teams are forced, given the situation of the glaciers in the Alps.
Many top level athletes are giving it all in this period, before facing (in most cases) the overseas trips that return to such after two summers without training on extra-European snow. For example, a Petra Vlhova ready to give a new assault to the World Cup has started working again in Saas-Fee, practically the only glacier still at full capacity after the various closures.
And who knows that a Katharina Liensberger who, together with her new coach, Livio Magoni, has already put together several days on the track in the summer and is concluding a new block at the Stelvio.
Alice Robinson has also filmed on the snow at home, at Coronet Peak, while the return of Breezy Johnson is approaching and it is really good news for the panorama of fast disciplines. The 26-year-old American, who had her knee injured again in January on February 3, announced on social media that she had passed the latest tests required by the federation: "The US Ski Team has very strict criteria to respect before returning to the snow - Johnson explained - You must have 90% of your personal best (for strength exercises in the gym, ed) and now I can say that all the work done in the last 6 months has paid off.
I have received the authorization for a complete training, now I will do the last work before returning to the snow ”.
And in the male field? Good news arrives in Austria regarding Roland Leitinger who, 9 months after the new break with the Crusader, should already join his teammates in the next trip to Chile, as reported by the “Kurier”. New operation on the ankle instead for the slalomist Christian Hirschbuehl, who should still be ready for the start of the new season.
Finally, the news from Swiss-Ski, where the winner of the last World Cup, Marco Odermatt, has resumed training on the snow and the conditions of Saas-Fee are exploited, after the closure of Plateau Rosà. The same dt Walter Reusser explained that "there is confidence that it will be closed for only 2-3 weeks (referring to Zermatt / Cervinia), with the lowering of temperatures expected by mid-August". And the Swiss squadron will also go to Argentina, in a month, to carry out an even more important block given the snow situation in Europe.
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