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The two axes that have written the history of the sprints have expressed themselves on various themes during the direct social network of FISI. Finding many points in common.
Wednesday 29 April 2020 5 minutes reading time
Federico Pellegrino and Cristian Zorzi together for a full-fledged chat. A "FISI Private Room", conducted as usual by the heads of the federal press office, Max Vergani and Andrea Facchinetti, very interesting for fans who have been able to appreciate the analyzes and thoughts, related above all to the future of this sport, for those who have written in the last twenty years some of the most beautiful chapters of Italian cross-country skiing.
Sprinter both but ... so different, as explained by "Zorro": "Chicco is fastidious and determined in everything he does, he doesn't neglect anything unlike myself. A born calculator, I have always admired and even envied it ". "It is true, I am like this and I also expect a lot from those who work alongside me - the Aosta Valley's reply - but at the same time I like to thank and gratify these people after a good result".
Pellegrino, however, who envies Zorzi “the ability to render even over longer distances, not to mention the fractions he made in the relay. Up to now I have not managed to improve enough to be competitive with the distance athletes in my era, but who knows in the future I won't be able to make that qualitative leap. For now, of course, my focus remains on sprints. " Where the champion of Lahti 2017 is the strongest, there was not a certain Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo in the middle ... "I simply have to be always ready, because I don't want to be remorseful when he misses something tactically or has a slight drop in shape - Federico's analysis - I will always try to beat him, even if we know how difficult it is ".
A fund in crisis? Yes, Pellegrino and Zorzi agree that something must change to relaunch this sport: “My thought has always been clear - attacks Chicco - Tradition must be protected, because the show is not the same among all the races of the season, just think that the stronger we find them protagonists perhaps not even in 50% of the tests on the calendar.
The FIS has opted for Alpine skiing-style calendars, filling all weekends, but in the end most athletes cannot choose from various disciplines. You can not present yourself 100% and the show is affected, then there are a thousand other aspects to be reviewed also in outline of the event. Look what Anterselva has managed to do with biathlon ... ".
Zorzi sees it the same: “I have been witnessing a drift of the fund for at least a few years, when we should be the queen of the Nordic disciplines. The management is making water everywhere, the TV is favored neglecting the sports aspect and the athletes. This is not a good thing. "
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