Alpine Skiing
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For the seventh consecutive year, Italy has closed the top three ranking for the nations (although in the last two winters was in the second and third instead just ended) but it was a quarter of a century that there was no so many tight victories in the World Cup Alpine skiing.
Wednesday 19 March 2014 9 minutes reading time
It was in the 1988-89 season, Alberto Tomba was dall'ubriacatura Olympic triumphs of Calgary. The December 11, 1988 he won the slalom at Madonna di Campiglio and then ... that's it. That was his most difficult season (when the news was heard repeatedly disrespectful to say the phrase "Tomb single second") which prompted him to create a private team with, among others, Gustavo thoeni coach and Giorgio D'Urbano trainer. This year, the only success came last November 30 in the men's downhill in Lake Louise, thanks to Dominik Paris and it is very likely that it would come at least one more if the South Tyrolean had not done badly in tests of Val Gardena compromising its performance for all races following.
At the same winter of 1988-89 was the last time that the Italian podium finishes in the World Cup were so few: 9, with the difference that this year came from 7 men and 2 women while 25 years ago they were all male : the blue team women's alpine skiing lived perhaps the worst time in its history with the veterans who had literally melted like snow in the sun and the young men who had yet to grow a lot, and among them was Deborah Compagnoni who had already made see to be a crazy talent but unfortunately it was already struggling with injuries. It 'also true that there have been years when its not there had been victories, as well as podiums, but the balance of the season just ended for Italy is anything but uplifting.
A fact is incontrovertible: for too long in the Italian team is among men than among women there is someone who gives the guarantee to win, or at least get on the podium at every race of his specialty , favorite, favorite or one of its specialties. The last was probably just the retreat Denise Karbon, which in the 2007-2008 season, the only one which came better prepared physically and injury, literally ruled in bounds. Perhaps at this moment an athlete like this could be Paris, which has demonstrated the ability to win on tracks as diverse Bormio and the Stelvio Lake Louise, even more Christof Innerhofer, who by his own admission said he was not able to go strong everywhere as does the Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, since he hates the easy trails and soft snow, Inner however, if the snow is hard and the course is challenging, prior to the evolution of the career of Paris is the only man (or woman) to large events we have.
The level of our overall alpine skiing is always quite high, and 84 placings in the top ten season, 55 for men, 29 for women, which are in slow but steady growth after last season very bad, they are to prove . But decreased dramatically, even for a little 'bad luck (see the many fourth places, including the three in the Olympics), the presence on the podium. Among the women came from many injuries and had to work hard to return to high levels plus one, Sofia Goggia, became ill again and there has been for most of the season, also at least a couple of young must be retrieved especially psychologically. Among men in the repeat sprints as an extraordinary season in 2012-2013 was unthinkable but overall the team is competitive, as well as that of giant slalom and slalom, where there are some young people who ski well but have yet to demonstrate the ability to make a further leap in quality, and veterans who are in the descending part of his career. With one exception: the 35 year-old Patrick Thaler, ever so strong and continuous as this year.
Every year we hear from our technicians that our athletes and our athletes need to be competitive on all terrains and that the preparation, especially in summer, is carried out in this regard. Yet every year things do not change: always with some exceptions, it makes great effort on the plans and on the soft snow and instead goes great on the steep and hard. Maybe the team that has had by far the best consistency of performance, especially in light of the conditions of the athletes at the beginning of the season, was that of gigantiste, but promptly got their best result in Lienz, where it was not very steep but The snow was hard, with seven girls in the top sixteen. Here, with the boys and girls who aspire to emerge and become champions should get them from the specialty that we believe is at the base of the ski: the giant, the right blend of quickness and speed, preparing to face the best of all land, and then broaden their horizons where, according to the engineers, they have the best qualities to express themselves, and that is either slalom or speed events. If you do not prove that such attitudes are also monospecialisti but they are at least competitive in every race conditions. But in our opinion it is better to know how to juggle more than one specialty, because the World Cup Alpine Skiing general continues to reward those who go strong in at least two specialties. If it were abolished, leaving only the trophies of specialty, as was the case in snowboarding four years ago, then yes that specialization would make sense.
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