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The Beijing 2022 Games are also open for alpine skiing: training really tough, Sunday will be a thrilling men's downhill in Yanqing. Christof Innerhofer behind the Swiss Rogentin (also cutting on the crucial passage) and the surprise Etxezarreta, but the Canadian and the Norwegian are "clean" and very close. Ok Feuz, Paris, Odermatt, Mayer and Kriechmayr have to work.
Thursday 3 February 2022 7 minutes reading time
A great show, even if the tradition in these parts is zero and there were many unknowns.
Well, the men's Olympic descent that will be staged on Sunday cannot be missed because this "Rock" by Yanqing offers many themes and a thousand solutions to seek the best: always sustained speeds, tough passages such as the jump into the curve after thirty seconds and , if the wind lends a hand by blowing a little like in today's first test (it got up, however, after an hour from the start), then there will be fun on the over 100 seconds of the track of the queen race.
It will count for little, but there in front of training number 1 (of the three scheduled) is Christof Innerhofer, who has adapted well to this very particular track: of course, "Inner" just missed the crucial door, the one on the initial jump. , but the basic speed seems to be there and the third place, 26 cents from the Swiss Stefan Rogentin (who cut in the same point), has a value even if in the top 3 there is, with the 2nd place just 8 cents from the leader, the Spanish surprise Adur Etxezarreta (good protagonist in the European Cup, but nothing more).
James Crawford and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde impressed, but it is certainly not unusual even thinking about this type of artificial snow: a "clear" path for the Canadian and Norwegian, very fast in the final, with the fifth and seventh time respectively at 34 and 41 cents from the Swiss. Matthieu Bailet is fourth just one cent from Innerhofer, but also with a goal jump like Simon Jocher, sixth at + 0 ”39.
Then there is another German, Romed Baumann, 8th at 45 cents (goal jump), on a par with a fabulous Loic Meillard who will be the co-favorite of the combined with Alexis Pinturault (very good also the test of the transalpine, at 1 "79 giving up in the final), and Max Franz 10th at + 0" 53 with a very solid second part of the test, reminding us, however, that the Carinthian is in qualifying with Striedinger (who finished at 1 "68).
Well Thompson, 11th at 6 tenths, good Clarey 12th with 8 tenths of a gap, watch out for Team USA with Bennett and Cochran-Siegle (1 "01 and 1" 22, among them there is Ferstl) very fast at traits, as well as Hemetsberger who closes 16th at 1 ”33,“ clean ”and getting up completely in the final. Same time as the Austrian for Beat Feuz, never too fast in practice but ... ok.
And Dominik Paris? Starting with number 3 and very few references, the blue ace does not miss the critical gate, he places himself at 1 "89 and will certainly have to work on lines and adaptation, but he can be considered partially satisfied as Matteo Marsaglia, 1" 63 away from Rogentin and just out of the winds.
In addition to 2 seconds, three champions like Odermatt, Mayer and Kriechmayr: even for them there will be a lot to file, with tests number 2 and 3 on Friday and Saturday. It was also the day of the return to the track, two months after the injury in Beaver Creek, of a stoic Kjetil Jansrud: a gap of just over 3 seconds, a good first approach considering the very little training and that "dancing" knee .
CLASSIFICATION 1 ^ MEN'S DOWNHILL TEST - BEIJING 2022
1st Stefan Rogentin in 1''44 ”00
2nd Adur Extezarreta + 0 "08
3rd Christof Innerhofer + 0 "26
4th Matthieu Bailet + 0 ”27
5th James Crawford + 0 ”34
6th Simon Jocher + 0 ”39
7th Aleksander Aamodt Kilde + 0 ”41
8th Loic Meillard + 0 "45
8th Romed Baumann + 0 ”45
10 ° Max Franz + 0 "53
21st Matteo Marsaglia + 1 "63
27th Dominik Paris + 1 "89
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