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4
Jan

Bobsled individual push tests: 7.47, that’s good

Very intersting day, yesterday; for the first time I could challenge myself in bobsled individual tests.
Being a guy who comes from Decathlon and is used to be all by himself during a two-days-race, I was a little bit sick of not having any individual measurement of my performances.
Yesterday the men bobsled Italian team was in Cesana Pariol and we did a 2-pushes test with a 130kgs sled down the indoor track.
I had a very positive feedback, improving my last (that was October) best by 24 cents of a second; I set 7.47 and my best was 7.71. That is good news because I feel I am on the right track to gain, one day, a place on Italy-1.
Today we are traveling to Koenigssee for the next World Cup race (Jan 10th-11th)

2
Oct

100 Minutes Decathlon – October 5th

18
Aug

Italian Decathlon Champion: 4th time.

With a great delay, pushed by the recent Olympic spirit, here is the annouce of my 4th Italian Decathlon Title. :-)

It was not a great performance (7215 points) but it was enough to win a valuable national title.

I was recently watching time ever records in number fo national title wins…. well, I’m still very far from Franco Sar, who won 8 times between the 50s and the 60s ;-)

Anyway, this title was a nice shine in the dark sky of my season, due to a long time injury and poor of good performances. The only good race, during the last Decathlon was a PB in long jump: 7.25. It already time to thinj about the next season and start working hard! ;-)

3
Oct

Eptathletes hand in hand

I found this nice picture on Flickr :-)

Eptathletes after Osaka Eptathlon 2nd day.

Let’s guess who they are! Read the following names in order of appearence from right to left (fotofinish rules :) )))

Vasilikí Delinikóla, Linda Züblin, Yvonne Wisse, Aryiró Stratáki, Jessica Samuelsson, Olga Kurban, Ida Marcussen, Karolina Tyminska (I suppose… :-) ) preceding for some centemeters Sonja Kesselschläger, Irina Naumenko and Nataliya Dobrynska.

It would be nice to have them all! OK, I’ll search some other photo ;-)

Post Update…

As promised, I found another one ;-)

Same order: Marie Collonvillé, Simone Oberer, Aiga Grabuste, Linda Züblin, Carolina Klüft, Jessica Ennis, Sylvie Dufour, Lyudmila Blonska and Kelly Sotherton