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Queralt Castellet (Sabadell, 31) experienced a 2020 of contrasts. The season ended in an unbeatable wayBronze at the World Cup, winning at Copper Mountain (US) and Laax (Switzerland), and became the first non-US rider to win at the X-Games in Aspen (US) in eleven years. At the end of the competition, in March, the Catalan went to Spain to attend various advertising engagements… and was taken by the pandemic. “I had planned to leave for five days and return to Laax to take advantage of the last part of the season to train, because it is a very important time to try new things, but I could not“, He assures during a telephone interview with AS.
His idea was to rush spring to Laax before heading to the United States and then New Zealand, but all plans fell apart. In July he was able to travel to Switzerland and from there he went to Austria. He had to train without snow, but he worked on other aspects in the Red Bull high performance center in this country. “It is a place that all Red Bull athletes have the opportunity to go to. I usually go there every year and we compare the physical parameters against last year. Then we work on what we want to improve. Let’s say they put you in tune to start your specific training. Since September 10, I am in Switzerland to enjoy the glaciers, since I couldn’t go to the latter part of the winter in New Zealand, ”he reveals.
Now Queralt is focusing on the reduced work schedule, which he knows can decrease further. The World Cup will have two stops: Laax (January 19-23) and Calgary (March 6-9). In between, the X-Games (January 27-30) and the Mammoth Grand Prix (February 3-6) will be contested. Later, the Dew Tour and the World Championships in China would be scheduled. “It is complicated. If a country does not have access to a competition, it is not contested. Being a world sport it is very complicated and more because the calendar is impossible to regroup it geographically like in other sports ”, he admits with the hope of being able to put a number as many times as possible and go out. of its most atypical year.
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