Silvio Fauner: "Everyone must fight for a place in the team at the Olympics"

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Silvio Fauner: "Everyone must fight for a place in the team at the Olympics"

November 29 shooting the season that will culminate with the Sochi Olympics: a few days before the start of the races in Kuusamo, felt the sports coordinator Silvio Fauner. Here's what he said.

Let's start with the most obvious of questions: What is the'''' goal season of the blue team? "As this is the Olympic year, it is clear that we will aim to get to the best appointment at Five Rings, passing through the Tour De Ski and for some stages of the World Cup." Speaking of the Olympics, which verranndo criteria adopted for the selection of the teams? "It will take account of placings achieved by each athlete in certain races, which may mean arrive once or twice in the first five among the first ten, depends on the races. Certainly, at the moment there is nothing defined, no one has a secured place. And although for some of the athletes there is - let's say - an eye, all you have to gain their Olympic chanche fighting until the end. " The Tour De Ski comes a month before the appointment Olimpico, do you value this year the competition? "Some athletes finish the tour de Ski in excellent condition.I, others come stramati. I believe that a competition like this is only useful if you manage to finish it in excellent condition both in the physical aspect - so no illnesses or ailments & ndash , as in the aspect of form. " How is the recovery of the injured Di Centa and Agreiter? "Giorgio Di Centa has had a difficult summer because of a herniated disc that has plagued him. But now it seems to be good luck and sis ta training at 100%. Agreiter As for Deborah, has returned from an intervention and should "go out" from the accident in December. The hope is that she can also be the game in the race for a place in Sochi. "
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