Marco Selle: "The most difficult weekend of the season is waiting for us, but in the team there is a good climate"

The new technical director of the Italian cross-country team, interviewed by Fisi.org, took stock of the situation regarding the current status of the national team and set the goals for the first part of the season.

Tuesday 20 November 2018 3 minutes reading time

The next weekend in Ruka (Fin) will start the World Cup, which the next week will stop in Lillehammer (Nor). The North European competitions will therefore be a first seasonal test for athletes but at the same time also for the new technical staff. "The two most difficult weekends from the technical point of view of the entire World Cup season are waiting for us - said Selle - the toughest distance tests are scheduled, but we face them with the right spirit. a good climate, the summer preparation was respected without a hitch, I hope that this feeling is made better by some good result ". A Ruka will be in the race seven blue, five men and two women, who will take part Saturday at a Sprint in classic and Sunday at a distance test in the same technique. "The two teams have followed different paths - specified the dt -, the women have worked in these weeks in Davos, where Greta Laurent and Lucia Scardoni have shown something good in the fast tests, but also the other girls have been busy The boys flew to Finland, where they found a lot of rain and skied in conditions to say the least spring.They had the chance to do some tests with other nations and they are happy.We will start with a sprint in classical technique suitable for Pellegrino, but also Rastelli and De Fabiani could qualify, I am convinced that the two girls will qualify, Scardoni is very perky in this format, getting to the semifinals would be beautiful Sunday there is a 15 km classic, Noeckler says he feels good, I hope I can do better than the thirtieth place last year, as a team we also focus on De Fabiani, Rastelli and Salvadori and Pelle who will fight to finish in the thirty. only Scardoni will take part, before returning to Italy ".

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