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Two other squadrons have officially renounced overseas travel; Pinturault, after Saas-Fee, will also go to the Belgian skidome of Peer.
Wednesday 25 August 2021 4 minutes reading time
Italy will try to the end, waiting for the last possible days to find an agreement that avoids the quarantine of the athletes, but the trip to South America will be substantially avoided also this year by all the main World Cup teams, which thus they will prepare the opening in Soelden and the November appointments with the first female slalom in Levi and the speed races between Lake Louise and Beaver Creek, always on European snow.
France and Switzerland, last in order of time after Austria and Norway had already raised the white flag, have given up and prepared an alternative program, which basically involves much of the work on the Swiss glaciers, Zermatt and Saas-Fee, in addition to Hintertux, which is very useful for the finishing between September and October. Alexis Pinturault has been in the Canton of Valais since the beginning of the week, will remain there for seven days and has already planned to ski, as the same blue slalomists did before August 15th with Sofia Goggia and Marta Bassino in addition, in the skidome of Peer, in Belgium.
Switzerland will make the most of, for both the male and the girls sectors, the home slopes practically available all year round: "The spaces are now a bit narrower ... - confessed to the" Blick " Swiss-Ski's director of alpine skiing, Walter Reusser - The conditions are optimal in Zermatt and Saas-Fee, that's okay for us too, ”he explained, referring to the renunciation of flying to South America.
The reasons, however, are not only those related to Covid: in Chile, according to the numbers, the snow conditions are the worst in the last 75 years, in Argentina there is the problem of being able to enter the country. "The risks are too great, there is also a general trend of national teams - explains Reusser - In the past we traveled trying to make the most of those conditions, today the teams think much more about the relationship between actual costs and benefits".
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