Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - Italy
Paolo Bernardi, head coach of the Italian Nordic Combined team, gave a brief interview to the FIS corporate website in which he took stock of the season just ended and explained the plans for the venture.
Tuesday 7 June 2016 4 minutes reading time
As a former athlete of Nordic combined, what feelings you experienced in returning to the discipline as a coach? "& Egrave, it was fantastic. I belong to the Nordic combined, are always eager to see how they perform athletes in two '' '' arts cos & igrave; different! "
However, the first season as head coach Italu not & egrave; It has been easy for you. Looking all''inverno just finished, which & egrave; It was the pi & ugrave challenge; great that you faced? "That to build a relationship with all the guys. We had to deal with a delayed start the season and c '' & egrave; take time to build a stable relationship. & Egrave; take time to gain the trust of the athletes. L '' winter & egrave; been full of ups and downs, but in the end the budget satisfies me. Now the road & egrave; the same for everyone, staff and athletes are rowing in the same direction. "
The leader of Alessandro Pittin Italian team had a horrible season 'last year. What are the plans for the 'summer? "Alessandro is focusing on making more & ugrave; stable his jumps. He needs to find his happiness & agrave; and at that point potr & agrave; go back to being' 'Pitbull' '".
The growth of Samuel Costa has certainly lit the scene. How satisfied are you with him and that you think may have potential for the future? "Undoubtedly Samuel lit up the season! & Egrave; a great leaper and the work done with the coaches who preceded me & egrave; been great. When you have a jumper like him, & egrave; much more & ugrave; simple, because & eacute; & egrave; just adjust some detail to raise the level. for him it will be & agrave; important to maintain this competitiveness & agrave; and, of course, try to improve again. We hope it will stay healthy, so as to work to close the gap on narrow skis without affecting the part of the jump " .
Can you tell us what are the programs Italu Nordic combined for the 'summer? "Quest''anno we decided to make some adjustments in the training plans. There will be fewer meetings last year, but we will try to train a larger number of systems. We will have months and months with two brief meetings with only one more & ugrave rally; down . Moreover, we will use the facilities to train in Predazzo rally and the 'other'.
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