We waited, we've hoped for has finally arrived.
Giuliano Razzoli wins slalom and save cabin and puppets of an entire nation. First blue gold 24 hours before the curtain falls on the XXI Olympic event and the only medal won by the entire squadron Italian alpine skiing. Class '85, Emilia of Castelnuovo ne 'Monti resident, irony of fate, just Razzolo, a village of only a hundred souls suddenly at the center of the world.
we return to the smile of the slalom poles, the most popular discipline, which they are linked that the best memories of the recent history of the blue. And it is a success exactly 22 years since, that from that 27 febbario 1988, Calgary, XV Olympic Winter Games: Alberto Tomba won, repeating the success achieved in a few days before giant, and thereby starting a great career that now we all know . Tomba and Razzoli, a combination of a thousand analogies. Good friends, both from Emilia, the same physical, same power, like skiing. Two names side by side in the media as soon as premature, two names from now live together in sports history. Tears for the parterre
Albertone national Razzoli tears for dad, tears for much of the blue team. Giuliano no, dazed and happy, peaceful as a few minutes before the starting gate. 'I've done it ' said just before getting on the podium. Yeah, holy words.
A triumph, the rocket, built entirely in the first round and finalized with a second managed intelligently. Head start of 43 cents on the Slovenian Valencic (6 ° at the end), Kostelic and Raich over 5 / 10, the rest of the company over the second. Blue gold traps that seem restricted to only four mentioned and it actually will be. The recovery
tries Swedish Andre Myhrer (3rd), author of the best time of the heats, and his comeback is bronze. It is confirmed at high levels Ivica Kostelic (2 °), which can repeat a week ago won the silver in super combined, while a mess very disappointed Benni Raich (4 ° to only five cents of the medal), forced to stay in the mouth dry in an Olympics that was supposed to see him among the protagonists. The placement of another Marcel Hirscher (5 °), the dull race in an unrecognizable Reinfried Herbst (10 °), and the disappearance of a quotatissimo Manfred Pranger after a few seconds, therefore lay down a verdict for the Austrian national team is very heavy: they are zero medals in the men's field, an event in which no one would dare to bet on the eve.
disappoint even the French Julien Lizeroux (9th), the great protagonist season still in the running for the cup of specialty in the CDM, and the Swiss Sylvan Zurbriggen (12 °) which is not making the best of the best chest departure. Exits the scene almost immediately to the long-awaited Felix Neureuther, and Americans Bode Miller and Ted Ligety. Good performance for
Manfred Moelgg (8 °) but goes for the medals offset by an opaque second run after the fifth fastest time in the opening (from +0.85 Razzoli) but do not finish the test Patrick Thaler (25 ° to mid-race) and Cristian Deville. Cala
so the curtain on the slopes of Whistler, for an edition issue, unfortunately, dominated by a sky almost never clear. But with a flag waving in the snow in Canada, and a podium from which to start casting his eyes up to Sochi 2014. Au revoir.
David Collareta
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