08.04.2009 - 17:29 h

MILLER, FILL AND PILLER COTTRER: SPECIAL GUIDES FOR SPECIAL SKIERS

Peter Fill exceptionally acted as guide for the skiers of “Gruppo Verbanese Sciatori Ciechi”

An unforgettable week end: last week end the alpine and nordic ski slopes of Macugnaga (VB) hosted the first edition of the unprecedented event called Briko 4 Blind.

For more than twenty years, indeed, Gruppo Verbanese Sciatori Ciechi has been allowing sightless people to play both alpine and Nordic skiing. During the last week end almost twenty sightless people were given the opportunity to play their favourite sport with world best athletes.

The US champion Bode Miller and the world silver medallist Peter Fill, on Saturday, and Pietro Piller Cottrer, on Sunday, acted as exceptional guides for sightless skiers.
“It was not my first time as sightless skier’s guide”- said Bode Miller - “and I was surprised by the way these wonderful people ski”. Even more moved, Peter Fill, the guy from Castelrotto, said: “At the beginning I was a little nervous, but the sightless skier I was accompanying with microphone and loudspeaker told me not to worry, and so I loosened up”. For both of them, this has been an important and really touching experience they wish to repeat.

Also the people that planned and arranged this event to the last detail were extremely satisfied. “We wished to arrange a wide-ranging event with a friendly atmosphere” - said Mr. Carlo Boroli, Briko chairman - “at the end of the season, in a relaxed atmosphere without the pressure of competitions, our athletes managed to perfectly catch the spirit of this event”.







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