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The last race in Beijing 2022 for alpine skiing, anticipated by an hour given the weather forecast, offers an Italian team that can do very well, with Brignone, Bassino, Vinatzer and De Aliprandini (Nicol Delago and Tommy Sala le reserves). Do we start against the Russians, a probable crossroads with Shiffrin's United States in the quarterfinals and then Switzerland or Germany?
Friday 18 February 2022 5 minutes reading time
It closes with the team event and, perhaps for the first time in the various reviews of recent years, even if a podium arrived in the 2019 World Cup with the daring bronze of Are, Italy presents itself with a team that can really compete for the medals, in the eleventh event of alpine skiing at the Olympic Games.
It will start at 3.00 Italian time on Saturday, one hour earlier than the original program as the weather forecast is negative for the following hours of the Chinese morning.
Fifteen nations competing and the blue team will field Federica Brignone, Marta Bassino, Alex Vinatzer and Luca De Aliprandini as owners, with Nicol Delago and Tommaso Sala possibly ready to take over: in each round four "direct comparisons" between the doors of a giant a parallel that recalls, in terms of distances and slopes, what has been seen in recent years in the World Cup, from the finals to the individual competitions which were recently staged only in November in Lech / Zuers.
Italy, from third seed, has a good scoreboard on paper: eighth final to open against Russia, which offers two discreet gigantists like Andrienko and Kuznetsov, and as a female trio (to be defined who will compete) the sprinter Pleshkova , Tkachenko and Gornostaeva. The eventual quarter-final against, most likely, the United States of Mikaela Shiffrin (with Moltzan, Hurt, Radamus, Winters and Ford for a not bad team), who will see it at the start against Slovakia without Vlhova and with the Zampa brothers holding the flag.
In the lower part of the scoreboard with the Azzurri, for the cross in the semifinals, there will probably be a very high level confrontation in the quarters between the reigning champion Switzerland (debut with the very affordable China), which will field for the occasion Holdener, Rast, Ellenberger, Aerni, Murisier and Gino Caviezel, and the Germany of Strasser and Schmid (with Duerr and Aicher) that will have to beat Sweden in the second round which, compared to the past, appears decidedly less competitive.
In the upper part, however, Austria (seeded n ° 1, we always refer to the ranking by nations) will miss the first round and then face it, with Liensberger, Truppe, Huber, Strolz, Matt and Brennsteiner, in a possible semifinal with Norway, world champion in Cortina 2021, which is scary with Holtmann, Stjernesund, Tviberg, Haugan, Windingstad and Solheim. For the Scandinavians, however, pay attention to the potential quarter-final against a quality France, from Pinturault to Faivre up to Worley (with one between Direz and Frasse-Sombet at his side).
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Round of eight matches: Austria-bye, Slovenia-Canada, France-Czech Republic, Norway-Poland, Italy-Russia, USA-Slovakia, Germany-Sweden, Switzerland-China.
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