The sailor in Genoa to attend the Red Bull Cerro Abajo of Mountain Bike: “Always interesting to confront other athletes and other disciplines. In Cagliari we are working a lot, after the golds I chase another company”
From sails to wheels, from the rudder to the handlebar, the water below that becomes a road, from flights with the foil to the jumps of the mountain bikes: strange connubi for Ruggero Titaguest of honor in Genoa at the stage of the Red Bull Cerro Abajo of Urban Downhill. In spite of what it might seem, the metaphor is perfectly fitting, given that the city also lends itself, with the breathtaking descents of the riders by bikes that fly straight to the sea, what has always been The race field of a legend of the sail, twice Olympic gold together with Caterina Banti In class 49er, in Tokyo and Paris/Marseille.
ideas
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With the nose up to attend the final flight of the riders in Larch of the mintTita seems very interested. “I really like being involved in other events, I like to observe athletes from other disciplines. In this case – says the Olympic champion – I like to observe the way they take care of their vehicle, the bike. But also see how they manage their preparationit is always very interesting to speak, interact, look for interesting ideas perhaps to be transferred to my world “. The opposite is also true: it does not happen every day to speak with an Olympic bicampione … “Beyond the compliments, the thing that makes me most liked is to hear people who thank me and Caterina for having brought the Italian sail to win. It has always been a very popular and practiced sport, but the most felt events of affection are those in which they tell us they have made or rediscover the passion. I think the sail has incredible potentialan enormous inclusive strength and a wide possibility of practice: because there is not only the race, the regatta, the competition, there is above all the possibility of enjoying one’s time, the sea, simply by browsing. AND the most magical part of the sail“.
Sail GP
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Tita is back from the tenth place of Sassnitz (in Germany) with the New Red Bull Italy team in the world circuit of Sail GP: “We made New York and then two other stages, in Portsmouth in England and Sassnitz. Pianino pianino are progressing, Red Bull Sail GP Italy It is a new team that debuts in this championship. These are 50 Fail feet catamarans, the peculiarity is that they do not have sails, but a rigid wing, for a technology that goes further, something truly innovative. And that makes regattas a different deal than what we are used to. These are extremely spectacular races, beautiful to see ”. But also very difficult to deal with, explains Tita: “The boat is delivered to all on Friday, 25 minutes of Warm Up and Practice Race are made, Saturday and Sunday race. And in the end the boat is returned, so it is impossible to train: this makes things very difficult for teams like ours approaching the circuit, because You have to know your crewyou embark in six people, you have to be very coordinated. You train a lot with simulators, we have the opportunity to analyze the data, but then the conditions you will find in the water will always be different. Imitating a little what happens for example in the MotoGPsettles the summer through all continents, From Auckland to Sydney, then Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York To complete the American stage, so we arrive as mentioned in Europenow await us Geneva (September 20) e Cadice (October 4) and closing in the Middle East, with the last ad Abu Dhabi“.
red moon
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The commitment with Sail GP He is exclusively restricted to the race weekend, so most of his time Tita spend it in Sardinia. “In Cagliari training with Luna Rossa,” he says. “You train from Monday to Friday, with 3-4 water sessions per week when we are lucky. It also depends on the changes that the team decides to make on the boat “. And Ruggero Tita also really like the way sailing progresses in the technological field.” Having studied engineering, everything behind the development of the boats, the physical and mathematical part, has always fascinated me a lot. And it is a sector of which I have always taken care firsthand, without delegating to anyone else or someone who worked in my boat. Obviously without doing everything alone. And I believe that this then brought great benefits, knowing the boat deeply, which were the advantages and disadvantages of every single modification. Having a basic knowledge of how a boat moves in the water, flows, pressure that is at play certainly helps us “. But then there is also the athlete: how do you train Tita? “The typical day in Cagliari depends in front of the boat with which you will then leave, but it can foresee two hours of the gym to begin, then the briefing of the day start, from 1pm you go to the water, when you return the various debrietfing are scheduled. From 6pm I have online meetings with Sail GP”. And the diet? “I have to maintain a certain type of specific weight, stay on 69.5 kilosI find myself quite well. In the male double of the 49er, however, it was much more difficult because I had to go up to 72 and eat a lot, because the combination of the two weights is important. I follow a fairly balanced diet, in particular. But it is not a penalty thing, I feel I do it more than anything else for my well -being. I love sushi, inheritance of the time spent in Japan the years before the Olympics “.
jacobs
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Speaking of Olympics: you were in Marseille, but how was it to reveal gold in Paris 2024? “When you enter the water with the yellow breast of the leader it is never easy, then the final regatta had also been postponed by one day. We had an advantage, but in the sail, and in sport in general, you cannot predict how it will end up, so you are very tense because you know that a small mistake is enough to send up everything you made up there”. But how to play an Olympic medal what does it mean? “It is also a beautiful and positive moment, try to enjoy it to the maximum. Although it is not easy to manage many emotions: for this reason the important thing is to be able to channel them to transform them into force. Caterina and I came from two different paths, but above all on board we had very different characteristics, starting with the body. But we managed to make our differences available to the team and make it as strong as possible. Caterina is a great athlete, extremely dedicated to preparation, physical care, instead I more dedicated to the engineering part, to make sure that our boat was always at best, with the best adjustments, to make it the fastest in the water “. And from the Olympic gold the dream has moved to America’s Cup. “With Caterina we managed to win at the Olympics after 20 years from Alessandra Sensini and then to do something that no one had ever done first, now I think that with Luna Rossa we have something possible at hand. We will put all the energy we have To bring this result home. “By the way, is there an athlete who would like to embark on Red Luna?” I would say Marcell Jacobs. Certainly for his physical characteristics it would be without problems, but what I have always struck me is the way to approach sport “. Of course, at that point with 4 Olympic golds on board, the opponents a little more fear would necessarily have it.
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