Torino2006, Cesana Pariol closes, reopens the ski jump in Pragelato

on Monday 7 November 2011
by Rino Galeno

FOTO Impianti Olimpici a Cesana

Bad news from the Olympic Mountains, the only Italian facility for the skeleton and luge, the track in Cesana Pariol closes its doors. The company Parcolimpico held that the management has decided that the 50 tonnes of ammonia contained in the system and needed to create and maintain the ice sheet will be recovered for other purposes, especially after the prosecutor in Turin had decided to declare insecure system because such a quantity of ammonia should be guarded day and night by armed personnel.

A real death blow to the team's blue bobsled, skeleton and luge that after a few years ago lost track of Cortina d'Ampezzo, finds itself without any equipment. To be sure, the bob is a sport practiced in Italy from a small number of people last year at the World sledge Cesana, which cost over a million euros, the spectators were around a hundred souls, despite the 'free entry. Unfortunately Armin Zoeggeler and Simone Bertazzo basin will be deprived of their "home", on which were practically unbeatable, and Italy also lost the only location available for play testing and training. This is for our country a real farewell to the sport, even though few will suffer from this choice. As an obvious consequence, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation has taken steps to exclude from Cesana Pariol World Cup circuit, replacing it with La Plagne, the French town that hosted the Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992. A few steps from Cesana insteadwill reopen on December the Olympic ski jump in Pragelato, after two years when he was still in the balance between closing degradation and abandonment. The mayor Gianni Arolfo Pragelato has found an economic agreement with the Province of Turin and Parcolimpico. Parcolimpico will pay about 150,000 euros a year, so that already in the next few months can be used three of the five Olympic ski jumps, restarting the chair lift to train the Ski Club. In spring 2012, however, the agreement will be formalized by giving the also common to the two large trampolines. But what does the City plant? "I will organize some international competitions, rather we will use it as a training site for Italian and foreign teams - the mayor announced Arolfo-Chisone Ski Club receives requests several times by France and Germany to host the national teams here ...". Unlike the bobsled track, trampoline is a plant that you can fall back and relatively easy to manage.

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