Wierer and Pellegrino, the guarantees that do not betray. "The Olympic medal is the top, we are still hungry"

Also in the next season we will see the South Tyrolean champion at the shooting range and the vice Olympic sprint champion as a reference point for the blue background. Their words at the "Grand Gala of snow and ice".

Saturday 16 July 2022 3 minutes reading time

These are the guarantees of two movements such as those of biathlone and cross-country skiing in Italy, two champions who will also be at the start of the 2022/23 vintage, despite the Beijing Olympic Games having given them two other medals that alone would be worth a career. Dorothea Wierer and Federico Pellegrino were awarded on Friday evening in Madonna di Campiglio, during the fifth edition of the “Gran Gala of snow and ice”, with silver flakes for what they had achieved in the past season. Seeing them up to Milan-Cortina 2026 will not be easy, especially as regards "Doro", but in the meantime we are thinking of another year to be played at the highest levels, with the two-time winner of the Biathlon World Cup who wants to return consistently to the vertices. "The last season was not an easy season, among the problems linked to the covid, the results for a certain period and the cold conditions found at the Olympics - explained Wierer - The medal has arrived (the first of his career at an individual level for the blue if we talk about a five-wheel review) and it was a great satisfaction, I decided to continue and we look to the future with confidence ”. Federico Pellegrino touched the gold masterpiece in Beijing 2022, a breath away from Klaebo in a silver sprint like four years earlier in PyeongChang, always behind the Norwegian ace. "I knew it would be the last chance in a free technique sprint at the Games, since the next one in skating will be in eight years - the words of the champion from Nus - I worked hard for this goal, but now it's time to look ahead. Yes, in December we will become parents (his wife Greta Laurent is pregnant, the announcement a few weeks ago, ed) and it will be a new great emotion ".

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