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To Rai Sport's microphones, the words of the chief race director of the Women's World Cup on today's cancellation and on the hopes for Zermatt-Cervinia.
Saturday 22 October 2022 4 minutes reading time
A couple of days to decide on the recovery, but in the meantime everyone gets to work to guarantee an opening at least for the men, since it will not be easy to reorganize a Rettenbach track in good condition for Sunday morning.
In Soelden the girls stayed directly at the hotel, before heading home and thinking about the next appointments, with the uncertainty linked to the “Speed Opening” which is still strongly in the balance. Within a few hours the decision for the men's descents, followed by the decision on the two women of the following week (5-6 November): the Rai correspondent on the Gran Becca, his colleague Pierfrancesco Pontecorvo, connected a few minutes ago from the Zermatt track- Cervinia, has leaked a certain pessimism about the fact that the FIS can give the ok to the men's competitions scheduled for 29-30 October (with the first test scheduled already on Wednesday 26, ed), since so many rains have arrived in these hours and in the meantime the organization has managed to complete the final part of the 4 km route on the glacier between Switzerland and Italy with artificial snow, but this very wet snow and still very high temperatures risk further complicating the plans .
Meanwhile, from the parterre of Soelden, the chief race director of the Women's World Cup, the Tarvisian Peter Gerdol, spoke to Ettore Giovannelli's microphones. "The conditions are not such as to guarantee safety to the athletes, as you know it is our priority - the FIS referee clarified immediately - Today it could not be done, tonight it rained and this morning it began to snow, but with flakes very wet, as we are always above 0 °.
Moreover, it will go on like this until the early afternoon, we could not in any way have guaranteed a solid base for the track ”.
Gerdol adds again, in view of the men's race scheduled for tomorrow. "The weather experts tell us that it should clear up quickly once the snow is over and with a clear night, even if the temperatures will not drop below zero, this will help a lot and will allow us to clean up the track to bring out the tough that was there. .
We hope to have a good season in the next few weeks, nature always commands and, if you ask me about Zermatt-Cervinia, we will see what our race directors decide today for men, then it will be up to us ”.
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