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Let's put on the track the athletes who will represent the Italy of alpine skiing in the eleven races scheduled in Beijing 2022; the doubt Goggia keeps the door open to Nicol Delago and Marsaglia between downhill and super-g, the men's combined risks seeing only Innerhofer at the start and with De Aliprandini, in giant, Sala and Vinatzer ready who will then form the slalom trio with Razzoli . And finally the team event ...
Wednesday 26 January 2022 5 minutes reading time
Hypotheses that become certainties or almost, given that the small contingents (9 women and 7 men) will lead the Azzurri technicians not to be able to field, if not on a few occasions, not even the classic quartets for each of the challenges scheduled for the next Olympic Games. Beijing.
So, let's see race by race which Italians should be at the starting gate.
FEMALE SECTOR
The giant will be the first appointment on the calendar, Monday 7 February, with Goggia already certain of the renunciation and therefore an obligatory trio, made up of Bassino and Brignone, both in the first starting sub-group, and Elena Curtoni who will be able to "switch on" the engine before its races.
Wednesday 9th here is the slalom, with Anita Gulli and Lara Della Mea looking for an upset, most likely flanked by Marta Bassino and Federica Brignone, even if the Aosta Valley has to dissolve the reservations on participation in this test as well, given that she would compete with everyone and 6 events on the calendar. In fact, another 48 hours and there will be the super-g where the knot is obviously that of Sofia Goggia, who in the case would leave room for Francesca Marsaglia, while Brignone, Bassino and Curtoni are sure of the place.
The next day, February 12, off to the downhill tests with 6 blue on the track (Goggia, Brignone, Curtoni, Marsaglia, Nadia and Nicol Delago), towards the race on 15 where the reigning Olympic champion will do everything to be at our side by Curtoni, Nadia Delago and Brignone, with Nicol Delago herself who would almost certainly have her chance in the event of Goggia's forfeit. Finally, the combined on February 17, with Brignone and Bassino for the medals, but also Curtoni who finished fourth at the Cortina World Championships, and potentially Nicol or Nadia Delago as fourth athlete. For the closing team event, Brignone and Bassino are certain to be there, the third woman (in reserve function) will go out between Gulli and Della Mea, with the boys who will propose De Aliprandini and two between Sala, Vinatzer and Razzoli.
MEN'S SECTOR
We come to the five men's competitions of the next Games. Basically, there is no choice for Alberto Ghidoni who will field Dominik Paris, Christof Innerhofer and Matteo Marsaglia in speed both downhill (first race on February 6) and in super-g, with only "Inner" almost certainly at the start of the combined.
Luca De Aliprandini will be the beacon for the giant on February 13, but we should also see Alex Vinatzer and Tommaso Sala between the wide doors, who three days later will be engaged in the most important race for them, the slalom with a blue trio completed by Giuliano Razzoli.
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