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Tuesday (4.00 Italian time) the most awaited race for blue skiing, with a rediscovered Goggia to look for a sensational encore after PyeongChang. The Delago sisters will leave shortly before (n ° 10 Nicol, 11 for Nadia), with Shiffrin before Sofia and then the very dangerous Suter (15), Weidle (17) and Gut-Behrami (19), even if the prediction is open to many other athletes ...
Monday 14 February 2022 6 minutes reading time
It is the day of the days for Italy, even if then there will also be the men's slalom (and maybe even the women's combined) to replenish the booty of blue alpine skiing in Beijing 2022, so far quite scarce with only the pearl of Federica Brignone in giant.
Tuesday 15 February, the date marked on the calendar for months, perhaps years, for a Sofia Goggia who very strongly wants an encore of the Olympic title of PyeongChang 2018: despite the injury in Cortina and a left knee that cannot be 100%, the reigning champion will be there, tomorrow morning (at 4.00 Italian time, live TV on Rai 2, Eurosport 1 / Eurosport Player) at the starting gate of the Olympic descent with number 13.
Sofia has chosen a fairly high bib (who won with 5 in Korea), since it will be important to observe some rivals as well, with only two races disputed on a new track until last Saturday. Elena Curtoni, 10th in the WCSL forced to take bib 1, could not do it, while with 4 it will already be very interesting to see Joana Haehlen, today the best in qualifying (to win a place in the Swiss quartet).
And with the 5 there will be Ester Ledecka, one of the many eligible candidates for the medal, who was silver 4 years ago for Ragnhild Mowinckel (drawn with the 6), perhaps more dangerous than the Austrians, seemed a bit in difficulty starting by Ramona Siebenhofer, tomorrow in the race with the 7 before Gagnon and Puchner.
The Delago sisters will experience a special race, with Nicol who will start with 10 just before Nadia (between them the technical break), at the Olympic debut with the 11 and important chances also from the podium, already touched several times this' year in the World Cup. Mikaela Shiffrin will be there, for her fourth race in this Olympics so far lacking in satisfactions: well in practice, hardly competitive for medals, but the American will have another opportunity to test herself in a combined key (as Brignone and Bassino will not do, out of the blue quartet like Marsaglia, and Michelle Gisin).
And after Goggia, at least four very dangerous women: Corinne Suter (number 15) hid a bit in practice, she won the last cup downhill in Garmisch (without Sofia at the start, this must be remembered) and she is the champion of the world in charge. Kira Weidle (17) impressed well in the two trainings and seems to have found the form of Cortina 2021, and then Cornelia Huetter) (18) and Lara Gut-Behrami (19), bronze in giant and gold in super-g, with Tippler to close the big group of twenty.
Only 36 athletes registered, there will also be Alice Robinson with the number 23: for the New Zealander who wants to grow a lot even downhill, it will be a further experience also for the combined.
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FEMALE DESCENT - BEIJING 2022
Startlist: 1 Curtoni, 2 Miradoli, 3 Flury, 4 Haehlen, 5 Ledecka, 6 Mowinckel, 7 Siebenhofer, 8 Gagnon, 9 Puchner, 10 Nicol Delago, 11 Nadia Delago, 12 Shiffrin, 13 Goggia, 14 Stuhec, 15 C. Suter , 16 Gauche, 17 Weidle, 18 Huetter, 19 Gut-Behrami, 20 Tippler.
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