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The technical director of the national luge team, leading the Azzurri who are testing Yanqing's gut, analyzes the situation in China and the possibilities of the Italian squadron.
Wednesday 10 November 2021 5 minutes reading time
The official trainings organized by FIL continue on the Olympic track of the “Yanqing National Sliding Center”, with a total of twelve days of testing, which will end on Thursday 18 November on the eve of the first stage of the Luge World Cup.
The blue team is present in full with Kevin Fischnaller, Dominik Fischnaller, Lukas Gufler and Leon Felderer for the men's single, Andrea Voetter, Nina Zoeggeler, Sandra Robatscher, Marion Oberhofer and Verena Hofer in the women's single and the double Nagler / Malleier, Rastner / Rieder and Rieder / Kainzwaldner. The technical director of the national team, the immense Armin Zoeggeler, takes stock of the situation three months before the Beijing 2022 Games where his team will have important ambitions. "Each team has many days available to study the tracks, in this first phase the attention is paid above all to the knowledge of each point, because it is the first test for everyone - analyzes the two-time Olympic champion - It seems a lot to athletes technical, with a speed of 130 km / h, where driving makes the difference and is fun.
In the next few days we will begin to experiment with the various materials built during the summer, our technicians will use three or four types of skates to run for the more experienced, while for the young it is more important to know the track ".
In recent days, an accident on the track, which occurred to the Polish Mateusz Sochowicz, has created heated controversy. "The track staff, or local staff, forgot to lower the barrier - says Zoeggeler - The accident in Sochowicz is something that must not happen, there was a lack of communication (that of not opening the barrier along the route to make the male route flow into the female one, ed) and we must ensure that it does not happen again in the future ".
After the official training sessions, the Nations Cup will begin on Friday 19th November, which will be the prelude to the men's double and single on Saturday 20th and the women's single and team relay on Sunday 21st to close the Chinese cup stage. “We will fill the contingents in the single male and in the double, while in the single female we have four places and will make a selection among the five girls in the coming days.
The conditions of the group are good, Kevin Fischnaller seems to like the track very much, Dominik Fischnaller, on the other hand, is not pushing to the maximum, especially at the start, because he has a slight inflammation in his shoulder which we hope to heal in time for the first race ", concluded Zoeggeler.
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