100 days until the Olympics

While the sports fans are looking forward to the start of the games, the athletes are beginning to be anxious. Who is allowed to go to London? Who has to watch the season highlight on TV?

A dozen South Tyrolean athletes are also asking themselves this question. Sports shooters have sometimes bought the ticket Petra Zublasing , diver Tania Cagnotto 'Mountain biker Eve Lechner and the 2008 gold medalist in walking, Alex Schwazer .

The quartet is expected to go through Gerhard Kerschbaumer and Andreas Seppi added. The mountain biker from Verdings is expected to take second place in the men's rankings, while the tennis professional from Kaltern is unlikely to be pushed out of the top 11 in the world rankings by June 50th, the deadline for qualification, and will therefore automatically get the London ticket has in your pocket. There is also justifiable hope Raphaela foil , who was nominated as a newcomer for the preliminary Olympic squad of the Italian national volleyball team.

The prospects for track and field athletes are bleak Christian Oberst , Hannes Kirchler, Lukas Rifesser and Silvia Weissteiner , who have recently been derailed by injuries and poor form and will have to approach the Olympic limit in the coming weeks. It will be particularly difficult for Kirchler and Rifesser to meet the officials' demands. Also the two swimmers Lisa Fissneider and Laura Letrari have yet to achieve the qualifying times set by the Italian association. Fissneider is certainly capable of this, but Letrari would need a truly brilliant performance to jump on the Olympic bandwagon. The same applies to triathletes daniel hofer , who has to make up 21 places in the world rankings by the end of May.

Table tennis players only have theoretical chances of participation Deborah Vivarelli , professional cyclist Manuel Quinziato and canoeist Luke Mayr . You will probably be denied a chance to make it into the Italian national team.

Tip: The Wednesday edition of the daily newspaper “Dolomiten” dedicates a special page to the South Tyrolean Olympic candidates.

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100 days until the Olympics

On Wednesday the countdown to the 2012 Olympic Games enters its final phase, with exactly 100 days left until the start of the largest and most traditional sporting event in the world.