A double hoax for athletes excluded from the national teams. Valentina Cillara Rossi does not send them to say ...

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With the FISI decision to "lock" the Stelvio, which competitive future for the many blues outside the main groups?

Thursday 7 May 2020 5 minutes reading time

A double mockery, with a prospect of preparation for the new season to say the least critical. It is the one with which the athletes excluded from the national cadres will have to live, as announced by FISI on Wednesday with the officialization of the teams for the 2020/21 vintage. And with today's news that the elements belonging to the World Cup groups, having priority over other teams and young people, will be able to train on the Stelvio glacier starting from the month of June, it is really difficult to imagine how many skiers (many of whom also protagonists in some races of the maximum circuit in the past season) they will be able to train on the snow from here to Soelden, when the 2020/21 cup should start on 24-25 October, with the glaciers closed until autumn (like Val Senales , which will reopen no earlier than September) within the Italian borders. The Federation had to cut, opting to "sacrifice" those athletes who are no longer very young, albeit some veterans from the best season of their careers: like Valentina Cillara Rossi, again constantly called to CdM 4 years after the last time, but above all in the fight several times for the podium in the European Cup, from the giant downhill and with two fixed places touched. The Ligurian was included only as an athlete of "national interest", like Luisa Bertani (in points in the giant of Kranjska Gora), and her reaction on a social level was not long in coming. "It's the new Italian strategy - wrote Cillara Rossi - The stronger you go, the more I stay at home". Out of each group instead athletes such as Roberta Midali, Karoline Pichler and Francesca Fanti, who were also at the starting gate in some races of the 2019/2020 World Cup, in addition to Federica Sosio who was waiting for the 2020/21 season for the real return after the terrible injury suffered in Garmisch in January 2019. Exclusions that also involved the male sector with the same logic: the most sensational choice concerned Roberto Nani, only of national interest despite having a permanent place in the pocket for the giants of CdM, out of all games instead athletes like Andrea Ballerin, Fabian Bacher and Giulio Bosca, but also the same Giordano Ronci and Henri Battilani, injured however during the 2019/20 season. Choices that you mix with the unknown factor related to Coronavirus, could lead some to also evaluate the hypothesis of the withdrawal. It would not be a sensational surprise.

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