The Italian XCO National Team with Bronze Medalist Marco Aurelio Fontana chose Livigno for their intensive preparations for Olympic Games 2012 in London.
Result Highlights for the team:
Men: 3rd - Marco Aurelio Fontana 13th - Gerhard Kerschbaumer
Anyone who thinks that xc is tame or boring should really come and spend a day with a race team! You may think that we are tame, but when I raced in the youth championships on the olympic track (don't believe the 'not technical' claims) we ended up having a whip competition! Oh yeah, and Marco is a badass.
Südtirolian, haha funny you ask with a swiss flag, what language do they speak in your country? oh wait you speak italian, german and french. most of the Italian ski team is also from südtirol
Just get kind of annoyed when they always criticize us XC guys for wearing LYCRA and shaving our legs.
We have reasons for doing that, because we don't wear knee pads and it's hard to get blood out of hair, and our clothes can't get snagged on our saddle because it's high enough that is a possibility. We don't criticize you guys because you have your awesome talents and we have ours, but we can easily make fun of you for having to rely on so much travel, to name one thing. You have your reasons for that as well, although we can fight back when it comes to making fun of the other discipline.
yeah kind of came out wrong didn't really see the context of your comment im just used to downhillers making fun of xc guys- i saw "too much spandex" and assumed that was what it was
I've been an xc rider from 89 till 96 .. and much of my friends currently ride also xc .. .. i think it's better to make fun of posers and wannabes .. no matter if they ride dh, xc, bmx etc ...
