FIS ROLLERSKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP AT THE BLOCKS OF
DEPARTURE
With the ceremony of inauguration of this evening the FIS
Rollerski World Championships 2002 start. More then 200 athletes are ready to challenge
for the titles of the "rollerski".
By now let's start. Since months the committee organizer of the FIS Rollerski World
Championships 2002 is working to prepare the demonstration and now Sandro Theodule,
president of the Comunità Montana Monte Cervino to which ago head the whole organization,
seems satisfied of the job until here developed. "Everything is ready" he has
declared "and to this point our look is turned only to the sky". In fact the
meteos conditions are the only unknown for these championships, that have reached the
second edition, and that will turn for a week the valley of the Cervino into the capital
of the FIS, here represented by the Swede Bengt Erik Bengtsson, general manager of the
World Cup of northern ski.
This evening the ceremony of inauguration is previewed, with the parade of the 17
affiliate teams (today the team of Ukraine has added) along the streets of the Commune of
Saint Vincent. It will follow the lighting of the brazier by three skyrunners Bruno
Brunod, Jean and Gloriana Pellissier. Testimonial of the ceremony is Marco Albarello,
competitive manager of the National northern ski teams .
And if among few times the brazier to Saint Vincent will be lighted, from tomorrow is
given fire to the agoniste dusts by the first of the five scheduled competitions. In fact
at Col di Joux is set the finishing line of the "teamrace", a competition with
chronometre departure every minute and the final time taken at the moment of the passage
of the third component of the team, that is composed by a maximum of four athletes. The
Italian team is the favorite among the senior men and they will have to defend the title
conquered two years ago in Rotterdam, during the debut edition of the world FIS of
rollerski. The team of 2000 is composed by Stefano Cordoni, Mirco Collavo, Andrea Stella
and Alfio Di Gregorio, but just the fist two will be in competition beside Omar Peruzzo
and Pietro Filippin, while Andrea Stella is ready as reserve. Alfio Di Gregorio, together
with the D.T. Pierluigi Papa, has preferred not to enroll himself not to jeopardize his
conditions on a binding run with almost 1000 meters gradient, and accordingly jeopardizing
the objective of a gold medal in the tests of Thursday and Saturday. Tomorrow Alberto
Pertile will be absent for the same reasons of the teammate in the Forest Body of the
State. He aims to a medal in the sprint competition this Friday in Chatillon.
Among the women Viviana Druidi, Kezia D’Incal, Erika Bettineschi and Barbara Sartor
will have to defend themselves from the strong German and Russian teams, and to be careful
to the attacks of France, that lines up the country skier of World Cup Karine Philippot.
Norway is absent , holder of the gold medal conquered in Holland in 2000.
The map of competition for the man race foresees the departure from the Thermal baths of
Saint Vincent and the arrival after 14,5 km at the Col di Joux, while for the female
senior and junior, and man junior competition the departure is moved to Salirod on a map
of 8 km.
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