Alpine SkiingBeijing 2022
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At 3.15 am Italian time the start of the 1st heat, with Marco Odermatt (n ° 4) the favorite but still without medals in Beijing 2022. Pinturault will be there despite the shoulder problem, Luca De Aliprandini to make Italy dream. Sala will start with 39, Vinatzer 44. The slope? Little difficult and very short ...
Saturday 12 February 2022 6 minutes reading time
It's time for the Olympic giant also for men, almost a week after the women's one that saw Federica Brignone give Italy what is still the only blue medal in alpine skiing.
All the hopes for Sunday's great challenge between the wide doors are entrusted to the vice world champion in charge, a Luca De Aliprandini who already in PyeongChang disputed a great 1st heat and then came out two doors from the finish, but arrives at these Olympic Games with much more certainty than in 4 years. The only problem concerns a less than optimal preparation after the fall in Adelboden, even if the training days in Yanqing were good.
The Trentino player drew bib n ° 2 for the first heat, which will start on German tracking at 3.15 Italian (live TV on Rai 2, Eurosport 1 / Eurosport Player), while the 2nd will start at 6.45 with a design by Rottensteiner, technician of Norway of Henrik Kristoffersen who will open the Olympic giant with the '1.
An objectively simple and very short giant, practically fifty seconds or so as for women. It will be necessary to know how to interpret it in the right way, attacking without any hesitation on this very particular snow. Filip Zubcic will follow De Aliprandini with 3, then the great favorite Marco Odermatt, who dominated this season with 4 wins in 5 CdM tests (and a 2nd place in the first race in Alta Badia won by Kristoffersen, before preceding De Aliprandini in the encore on the Gran Risa), but is just back from the bitter disappointment of the super-g exit and therefore still running out of medals in Beijing 2022.
Then the French leaders, with Mathieu Faivre (5) as world champion in office, but in a year that is certainly not brilliant, and Alexis Pinturault with the 6 and that problem in his right shoulder accused with the fall in the combined slalom. Manuel Feller is a strong candidate, even for the gold medal, considering what the Tyrolean has done in recent weeks in the discipline.
In the second subgroup it appears difficult to find successful or podium names, even if Schmid (9), Kranjec (13) and Meillard (15) can do well, like Lucas Braathen (14) who is a real loose cannon.
There will be the return to the race, 13 months after the terrible accident in Adelboden, of Tommy Ford who will start with 20 to look for an Olympic miracle, and two other Azzurri with high bibs and the maximum goal of a top 15 useful for the WCSL. We are talking about Tommaso Sala (number 39) and Alex Vinatzer (44), already projected towards the slalom, their race on February 16th.
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MALE GIANT - BEIJING 2022
Startlist 1st round: 1 Kristoffersen, 2 De Aliprandini, 3 Zubcic, 4 Odermatt, 5 Faivre, 6 Pinturault, 7 Feller, 8 G. Caviezel, 9 Schmid, 10 Schwarz, 11 Murisier, 12 Brennsteiner, 13 Kranjec, 14 Braathen, 15 Meillard, 39 Sala, 44 Vinatzer.
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Giant slalom Male Beijing (CHN)
ODERMATT Marco
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