Dal Farra and Baruzzi will debut tomorrow at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Argentine athletes Franco Dal Farra and Francesca Baruzzi will debut this Sunday at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, in the disciplines of cross-country skiing and alpine skiing, respectively. Baruzzi, 23, will start his Olympic journey at 23.15 Argentina time and will later compete twice again. For his part, Dal Farra, 21, will compete at 4 in the morning and will also be in the sprint test (8/2) and in the distance 15 km (11/2). Both athletes were the flag bearers at the opening of the Olympic Games held last Friday, where the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, attended as part of his tour of Russia, China and Barbados.Baruzzi carried the national flag at the II Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016, where he finished in tenth place in slalom; and was eighteenth in combined and twenty-eighth in Super G.After several months of inactivity due to an injury to one of her knees, the athlete returned to the track almost a year ago and took the silver medal in the women’s giant slalom event at the FIS World Cup in Slovenia. In addition, at the end of 2021, she came third in a Continental Cup in Panorama, Canada.” I am very happy and proud to have been chosen as the flag bearer for the opening of the Olympic Games. I can’t wait to represent my country in the most important sporting event that exists,” Baruzzi said. For his part, the Rionegrin Dal Farra was champion in the Cadets category between 2011 and 2015 and in the Senior World Championship in Seefeld (Austria) in 2019, where he managed to place among the top 10 in the distance classification. For me, they are my first games and I am quite nervous, but I want to go and compete,” said the athlete to the site El Cordillerano.Regarding the competition in Beijing, the young man detailed: “To qualify for the event, I have been working on the national team for three years and I managed to position myself as the best Argentine athlete in this sport.” Last year, at the world championships in Oberstdorf (Germany), we got a quota for the country, and this year, based on the results I was having, that quota was granted to me,” he said. According to Télam, the other Argentine athletes who are part of the ski delegation are Victoria Rodríguez (Speed Skating), Tomás Birkner (Alpine Ski), Verónica Ravenna (Luge) and Nahiara Díaz (Cross-Country). 
Below are the competition schedules of the national athletes: 
Francesca Baruzzi (alpine skiing) will perform this Sunday 6, at 23.15 in Argentina. Then, he will compete in slalom (9/2) and supergiant (11/2).
Franco Dal Farra (cross-country skiing) will also go out on the slopes this Sunday 6, at 4.00 in Argentina. The athlete will continue in the sprint test (8/2) and in the distance 15 km (11/2).
Verónica Ravenna (luge) will compete on Monday 7, at 8.50 in Argentina.
Victoria Rodríguez will perform this February 7, at 8.30, in the discipline of speed skating in short track. 
Nahiara Díaz will compete in cross-country skiing on February 10, at 4.10 in Argentina.
Finally, Tomás Birkner will take to the track on February 12 at 23.15, to compete for the discipline of alpine skiing. In addition, on the 16th of this month he will run in slalom.

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