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At Skipass Modena Fiere we had the pleasure of meeting the two spearheads of Italian sledging: Patrick Pigneter star of the toboggan on a natural track and Dominik Fischnaller among the protagonists of the artificial sledge circuit.
Wednesday 6 November 2019 2 minutes reading time
Fischnaller after a past season characterized by so many highs and lows is ready to face the new edition of the World Cup at its best, "The objective of this year is to stay constantly in the top 6 of the standings. summer we worked hard in particular on the fundamental thrust and I think I'm ready to get good results. "
There is a desire to redeem as well in the words of Patrick Pigneter, an athlete who has dominated the natural track toboggan races for a decade and who in recent years in particular in the single has been dethroned by his teammate Alex Gruber, "The preparation summer went very well, in a couple of weeks we will finally be on the snow to find the feeling with the sled again, the goal of the season is to take back the World Cup of the single. 3 years Alex Gruber was faster than me. "
With the two champions we also joked proposing to both challenge each other in a natural toboggan competition to relaunch this discipline among those to be included in the Olympic program of the Milan-Cortina Games2026. Challenge that both Pigneter and Fischnaller willingly accepted and that perhaps FIL will listen to them if they don't think about it ...
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