Vancouver 2010. The Winter Olympics that I followed more than ever, between the live night on the couch, deferred until the Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Alpine skiing I've seen everything. Gare beautiful, falls, comebacks, surprises and all the U.S. squad, which together all'intramontabile Bode Miller, fielding two super skiers that besides being beautiful also are strong, that for This sport is quite rare. In addition to the traditional event I have seen things that Mom Rai had never deigned to transmit, like the half pipe. Emblematic of the decision of the schedule Raitre that, at the end of Half pipe (most watched event in the world with the opening night and a couple of events of Alpine skiing) preferred a group game of curling. Oh well .... We are not here to make controversy over the powers of the state television, also because the games I've followed them on Sky, with a total coverage and preparation, and perhaps for the HD, or perhaps the opportunity to follow events more or less unknown in Italy, I was impressed a lot 'of things.
Certainly the Canadian organization has worked well, but not great. Serious technical problems in timing of the speed skating events that, in my opinion, they did highlight what had been impeccable organization of Turin in 2006 where there was never a stumbling block that had one (they say that the Italians .. ..) On the other hand I have to stress that I was impressed by how it was fought bad weather and the lack of snow. Apart from the trucks and helicopters that have moved tons of natural snow, artificial snow for the halfpipe and motocross track, has left me speechless to see that, between an athlete and the other in the men's slalom race, there was an attendant for each post that was concerned to dry thoroughly so that moisture drops and no end next skier on the mask .. service from Dubai City rather than from North America.
Now we need to be sorrowful note: the blue medal. Never so bad. A disaster team downhill, almost equal to that of the bottom part of the silver Piller Cottrer and half miracle Pittin in the Nordic combined, which is the science that just does not belong to us. You save the Zoeggler timeless with its fifth medal in five Olympics and the fountain with a bronze in the short track. Just think Fontana is emblematic of a malaise that afflicts more than one organizational Italian federation. The example of figure skating one wonders whether it is right that the FA ask a fee for athletes, for then pay travel and lodging for executives and their wives. In addition to this we have great technical limitations of the coaches, always reported in a release from the Fountain hard to Sky at the end of his last race, where I do not want to talk about because they are not practical for skating, but I think is also due to skiing Alpine. You can not make a team press conference as if it were to split the world and a week later there to be pleased with the medal in the giant wooden women because there has been close. I think we should understand why we do not win some more races, even in the World Cup, to realize that skiing is more to the speed disciplines (now the giant is più simile ad un super G per la distanza delle porte), fare un bell'esame di coscienza e ammettere i propri sbagli. Giusto dire che abbiamo bisogno di più impegno da parte delo stato, giusto chiedere più finanziamenti allo sport che non vadano solo nel calcio, così come è giusto dire che a scuola lo sport debba diventare davvero materia di insegnamento e non uno sfogo ricreativo cui lo studente guarda come se fosse l'intervallo. Nascondersi soltanto dietro a questi pretesti e a un po' di sfortuna (che c'è anche stata, per esempio nella discesa di Werner Heel anche lui medaglia di legno) sarebbe troppo immaturo, sarebbe un classico scarica barile all'italiana di cui ora non c'è bisogno. Bisogna tirare una riga e ricominciare da capo perchè gli interessi sono troppo alti per rinunciarci, anche quelli economici.
Ora che ho detto quello che penso e che ho fatto un bel quadretto all'italiana tra federazioni che non funzionano, soldi statali mal spesi e mogli col viaggio pagato, è giunto il momento di dire che italianissima è anche la grande vittoria del Razzo! E' Italiana perchè viene all'ultimo secondo, con l'ultimo azzurro in gara. E' italiana perchè sa di miracolo sportivo e di impresa fatta col cuore. E' italiana perchè arriva nella gara più bella, nella specialità che ancora è regina per tecnica e fascino che trasmette.
Giuliano "Razzo" Razzoli, da Razzolo (Re) won the gold medal in the slalom race of the Olympics. He did it as a tomb to his first Olympics, as well as by the Apennines and the tomb is a place of broken Italian seasoned German inflections, has a bell'accento Emilia, frank and funny. As Tomba won Feb. 27, exactly 22 years away from that link with Calgary, so stopped "even" the festival of San Remo. It 'very Italian Rocket as is his victory, I almost saved the Olympics the "landslide blue" as it would be fair to rename the former squadron was once told by the avalanche. This guy has already won a couple of special races in the World Cup and I hope to do even more in the future, but we must give the possibility to go further. And 'now that his coaches widen its expertise to other disciplines (at least the giant) as well as the Federation has to take responsibility to protect him from the inevitable wave of media that it will invest tomorrow on his return to Italy. He, unlike other athletes, the federation has thanked her after the race, we do not know if he did it for accuracy or for real merits. Certainly today, at least on this front, things work so it's not going to mess up the case further. One wonders if only 4 years ago this boy, then aged 21, had not the forerunner to the Olympic race in Sestriere and did not have time to record the third round, standing in front of a world and Olympic champions, we are confident that today would be where are you? We are confident that the Fed would have never noticed and would invest about him? Perhaps best not to look for answers, this is an Italian, not likely to find the wrong ones. Now let's enjoy this sample after growing on wet, heavy snows of the Apennines went on to win in the rain in Canada, so to remind everyone that to win you have to start from the bottom and know how dirty a bit 'in the mud, when you need it.
