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Big changes ahead for the next season in the team's blue toboggan. Greta Pinggera neo-junior world champion of natural luge track next year will abandon its discipline of origin'' to move to more famous artificial luge track.
Saturday 24 May 2014 3 minutes reading time
To announce this important news is sportnews.bz the website that has approached the athlete'' native Laas, "I have often talked with my friend and classmate Andrea Voetter (blue national luge artificial ed) and with my coaches about the possible transition to artificial tobogganing. Three years ago I made some tests on the gut but Igls'' s time it all came to nothing. Now I have made the decision to change sports because I believe that the natural toboggan may collect little satisfaction and being a very ambitious person and who wants to do their sport their work I opted for sledding artificial. certainly will be a big change and a new challenge for me also because it will not be easy to adapt to the new sport but we want to try. "
Greta Pinggera once they complete their studies will focus entirely to tobogganing, "In the next two years I will focus only in the sport and see if I will get the desired results. partly because I have to have a lot of patience does not mean that I will be competitive, in case of failure I will devote myself to the bakery to help my father or my mother in her shop of clothes. "
Among the main supporters of the young luger South Tyrol could not miss the boyfriend Patrick Pigneter, he who in the natural toboggan years history in the making of this discipline, "Patrick and I have often talked about this possible change and it was he who advised me to try this new adventure, "he concluded Pinggera the site of South Tyrol.
Good luck Greta!
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