Skiing, slalom Azzurri are ready: seven summoned for Gurgl

Seven summoned for the race that will, in fact, inaugurate the men’s CdM

The technical director of the Azzurri, Max Carca, has summoned seven athletes for the Gurgl special slalom scheduled for Saturday, November 18: a significant race also because, in fact, it inaugurates the men’s World Cup season, after the cancellations of the previous weeks.

Alex Vinatzer, Tommaso Sala, Giuliano Razzoli, Stefano Gross, Tobias Kastlunger, Simon Maurberger and Matteo Canins will represent the tricolor. The first run è scheduled at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, the second at 1:45 p.m.

"The guys are all fine – explained the coach to the official channels of Fisi -, è also returned to the group Tommaso Sala, who has completed the physical recovery and just has to get used to the training conditions again. All spring and summer we did everything that was planned in terms of track work, forty days between Ushuaia, sheds, Austria and tour to the North. But more important than the numbers è the fact that they were carried out with high quality ".

"Vinatzer has found a good set up, in my opinion he has made a good step forward, among the senators Gross has to show that he is not afraid of himself, we asked him to show us his second youth. Razzoli is forcing a bit’ to prove himself, he comes from over a year of inactivity;. Maurberger has è settled down technically in both slalom and giant slalom, Kastlunger has learned more about the group and our working methods than anything else, while Barbera and Canins are expected to jump into competition. They will take turns in the World Cup, with the’goal of picking up results in the European Cup" concluded Carca.