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A disastrous Olympic super-g for Italjet, the Piedmontese is 18th ahead of Paris ("I have to work hard to get back to my level"), with Innerhofer out. The controversy with Rinaldi does not subside.
Tuesday 8 February 2022 5 minutes reading time
Eighteenth, twenty-first and halfway out.
Three placings, certainly not random given that expectations were already low for what was seen in the season and for the adaptation to the Yanqing track, which however say all about the difficulties of a national speed team that today, in the super-g of the Games Olympic, reached the lowest point of the four-year period.
Of course, for years we have clung to the enormous qualities of Dominik Paris, who is still not the pre-injury one of 25 months ago, but if we also add the climate created around the men's team before and after the statements made yesterday by Matteo Marsaglia, the picture is complete. Matteo Marsaglia, the only one to partially save himself in today's race, even though the final stretch cost him at least the top 15, did not take any step back, consistent with what was "shot" yesterday and reported by the Gazzetta dello Sport, or the request by the FISI (with immediate reply from the sports director Massimo Rinaldi who denied the situation) to give up his place in super-g to make room for Mattia Casse, who was not part of the 7 called up for the Games given the very small contingent and, in fact, he is currently the best pure specialist in this discipline for Italy.
"It was a nice super-g, I honestly thought I could do better - Marsaglia explained to Rai Sport, before returning to the story at the precise request of Ettore Giovannelli - Yesterday what you read about happened, I had no interest in inventing something like that, I said exactly what I was asked and I consider it a shameful thing, which goes against all the values that sport has taught me ”.
Dominik Paris, 21st at 2 ”68 from Matthias Mayer, also comes out of this Olympics without medals and is naturally disappointed. “I was hoping it could go better than my current super-g trend, but this moment hasn't come. There was little curve but also little space between the doors, I struggled and I know well that I have to go back to training to raise my level in this discipline ".
Christof Innerhofer, who should be the only blue at the start on Thursday of the combined, closes with two exits a descent and a super-g for him disastrous. “It's a shame, in the most important week of these 4 years - his words - Today I tried again after the mistake of the descent, but I didn't have good feelings right away. The attitude was the right one, but the feeling wasn't there. I don't want to live from the results of the past, but only from the present ”.
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