The problem of the Italian federation is that her system doesn`t work and we can`t afford to lose talents like Colturi. Our slalom does not exist, whether among women or men. We are currently at a level under that Croatia in women and Bulgaria in the men's category. There is no progress, in fact there is regression, because while Vinatzer often didn`t finish a few years ago, when he did finish he was able to be in the top. Now he either doesn`t finish or is around 20th place, like now. In the women's category the peak of our abilities is Peterlini, who regularly placed around 20th place in the World Cup... If we can`t afford to invest more than Albania and that with the Winter Olympics in a year at, then I think we can really dissolve our ski sector and focus on something else... If the federation is satisfied with such low levels, let them continue
Btw. maybe it's better investing in private teams like Colturi, if it works? I'd like have 1-2 Colturi in private teams, who will stand on the podiums of the World Cup, than a national team consisting of 5-6 average skiers, who can take 20th place at most, if they finish the race at all...
Day 6
36. SPEED SKATING - W 5000m
1. Irene Schouten NED
2. Ragne Wiklund NOR
3. Martina Sablikova CZE
37. SHORT TRACK - W 500m
1. Sandra Velzeboer NED
2. Kristen Santos-Griswold USA
3. Selma Poutsma NED
38. SHORT TRACK - M 1000m
1. William Dandjinou CAN
2. Jens van't Wout NED
3. Park Ji-won KOR
39. FREESTYLE SKIING - M Moguls
1. Mikael Kingsbury CAN
2. Ikuma Horishima JPN
3. Walter Wallberg SWE
40. SNOWBOARD - M Snowboard Cross
1. Eliot Grondin CAN
2. Alessandro Hammerle AUT
3. Omar Visintin ITA
41. SNOWBOARD - W Snowboard Halfpipe
1. Mitsuki Ono JPN
2. Maddie Mastro USA
3. Sena Tomita JPN
42. ALPINE SKIING - W Super-G
1. Lara Gut-Behrami SUI
2. Cornelia Huetter AUT
3. Federica Brignone ITA
43. LUGE - Team Relay
1. Germany
2. Austria
3. Latvia
44. CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING - W 10km Free
1. Jessie Diggins USA
2. Therese Johaug NOR
3. Victoria Carl GER
@Antooo any chance that you will be able to prepare 2026 olympics schedule in Excel/PDF file like you did for 2024??? It should be easier now, much less events to do. And no hurry at all, we have 15 months to go...
Men's Epee ( Vancouver)
Gold: FREILICH Yuval Shalom
Silver: GAVALDA Eugeni
Bronze: FRENCH Dylan & HO Wai Hang
Full results:https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/97E897C7F64B426996E085E1E41C00C8
Women's Epee ( Vancouver)
Gold: SONG Sera
Silver: LEHIS Katrina
Bronze: HSIEH Kaylin Sin Yan & DIFFERT Nelli
Full results:https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B9FA9201BF6D442C81345797CEC749FE
IMO the Italian federation was right in not giving to that financial and political blackmail - had they accepted it, plenty of more established athletes in snow sports could have asked for more under the threat of changing nationality. It's not like they had a sports almanac from the future saying that that 15yo girl would have won 5 olympic gold medals and 5 overall world cups.
Nonsense. Chamizo moved to Italy, married an Italian, he's still here after many years and was essentially banned from competing for Cuba.
Colturi's tie to Albania is that the Albanian federation had invested a ton of money in her mother's business (élite and very costly academy for young skiers), and then gave her a role, and probably another big salary, as a director in exchange for the pomise of their first winter Olympic medal. A better comparison is to that archer who competed for Ivory Coast because her father had a big clothing business in the country.
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