10 March 2020

Ghisolfi in Arco quarantine long way from Tokyo

Stefano Ghisolfi, #2 in the Lead WC in 2018, has been focusing on Combined during the whole winter trying to get an Olympic ticket in the Euro Ch. in Moscow starting in ten days. Due to the coronavirus, there are now severe restrictions until April 3rd in Italy and he might loose his dream. "The situation in Italy is quite critical now. We have to stay home and cannot travel outside our towns. We can go out only for primary needs, to buy food or go to work, but everything is going to be closed now. I and Sara already decided to stay home a few days ago, we train in our garage and wait until the situation gets better. Her immune system is not effective because of a kidney transplant, for this reason for her is important not to be in contact with the virus. The virus didn't arrive yet in Arco, but it could so everybody is invited to stay home to avoid contact with other people outside the family. For climbing, Asian championship has already been canceled and so it could be the European championship, I hope it will be postponed, but in any case, it will be impossible to arrive in Moscow from Italy, and in ten days it probably will be hard for other countries to travel to Moscow. I think is very important to follow these rules now for Italy, and other countries can learn from what happened here and try to avoid it before it spreads too much around Europe. Everything is closed but I'm quite lucky I have a good wall in my garage so the only thing I can do is keep training but at home! Stretching in the morning and boulder, circuits or hangboard in the afternoon, and I will have time for reading books and work on my social media between the sessions. The problem of climbing outdoor is that if an accident happens, is it very dangerous to go to the hospital because of the virus, so for the moment, we will climb only at home. It is possible to go outside to walk or hike, in places where there are no people, close to home.

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