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Middle Distance
It was snwoing like hell when the middle distance were held on Passo Cereda. First Starter was Roberto “Truffa” Dallavalle the best Italian Foot-orienteerer, since he does not practise cross-country skiing he started with non-waxed crowned skies, actually we made some jokes about him. I started 2mins before, the Fedrigo biggest opponent in all races until now, so I knew I could not make mistakes in the first half not allowing him to reach me. I started as always very fast but on the scooter-tracks especially in climb I could not go faster then 4km/h but I thought this would be the same for everyone, at half the course I always saw entering Fedrigo into controls when I was leaving them, so I know I could not win this race and slowed a bit down. At the end he reached me and we finished together. I was convinced to be 2nd but Truffa who could run on scooter tracks was the fastest this day and became Italian SKI-O champ, I arrived 3rd
Sprint Distance
This race was quite flat in the first part so I knew i had to push very hard there to get an advantage before entering in last part which was with some climb. I felt very well had no doubts on the Routechoices in 1st part which was on a lake (=flat), on second part i hesitated a little bit but had always a good flow. At finish I was 1st with exact the same time as Fedrigo and we were waiting Truffa luckily he was behind us because he lost 1:30min on the lake.
So everyone of us 3 goes home with a Gold medal an Italy has another good SKI-O athlet