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Towards the Olympic descent on Sunday: "Domme" closes fifth and is growing, Innerhofer fast again just behind him. The Norwegian is scary, but so are Crawford and Feuz ...
Friday 4 February 2022 4 minutes reading time
A second training conditioned by the wind, so much so that it was postponed for an hour and, despite this, there was no lack of gusts, from top to bottom, on the "Rock" of Yanqing which on Sunday will host the men's descent for the first Olympic titles in Beijing 2022.
In front, however, there is the one who can perhaps consider himself the first big favorite for the gold medal, that is Aleksander Aamodt Kilde: the Norwegian concedes in the final to Max Franz (who will play the last bib at home tomorrow Austria), however, ahead of the Carinthian by 6 cents, in a ranking that is then very short from fourth place onwards, even considering various "cuts" in the usual point after the first jump.
In third there is Broderick Thompson, who fits again with bib 41 just 2 tenths from AAK, then from Hrobat (+ 0 "43) they are all glued, with Dominik Paris fifth at 47 cents and with the feeling that the blue champion has much more certainty than in the first test. Followed by Niels Hintermann, also dangerous in terms of the race, the Spaniard Extezarreta who confirmed himself (yesterday he finished 2nd) and is 7th at 54 cents, with Romed Baumann and Christof Innerhofer behind him.
The second blue, ninth at 57 cents, gives hope for something important as seen in the various sectors of the track, but there are those who are really scary like Beat Feuz and James Crawford, whose feeling with this new track seems very good . The Swiss ace and the young Canadian, just 1 and 2 cents behind "Inner", in turn find themselves in front of the growing Austrians, with the ascent of Mayer and Kriechmayr and the confirmation that Hemetsberger will also be there for the great race on Sunday.
Among them a good performance for Kline, Sejersted and Ferstl, a little further Rogentin, yesterday's best time, at 89 cents. Suffice it to say that Matteo Marsaglia, even with a gap of just 1 ”10, is 25th, while Marco Odermatt we expect that, as usual, he will change gear on the day that matters most, having also accumulated a 2” 22 gap today.
Saturday (again at 4.00 Italian time) the last test, with better weather forecasts in terms of wind.
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