Alpine SkiingBeijing 2022
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Wednesday new appointment with the men's speed in view of the Olympic race the following day, which sees Pinturault and Meillard as main favorites. Kilde, Mayer and even Jansrud at the start, the training startlist.
Tuesday 8 February 2022 3 minutes reading time
Another appointment with the Yanqing descent, although in this case in another guise.
In fact, tomorrow (3.30 Italian time) a sort of third test will be staged (after the two that preceded last Monday's race) useful in a men's combined key on Thursday, when we will see downhill and slalom to assign the title that in 2018 it was by Marcel Hirscher.
Without his eternal rival, Alexis Pinturault is the natural favorite to win his first Olympic gold medal: he will start with number 5, in tomorrow's training, the Frenchman today protagonist of a decent super-g (11th), but we will also see Kilde and Jansrud himself for Norway, the reigning world champion Marco Schwarz, who is not yet the one who mocked Pinturault himself in Cortina, together with Mayer, Kriechmayr and Strolz in Austria, but above all ( in addition to Cochran-Siegle) keep an eye on the Swiss with Meillard who proposes himself as a co-favorite, even as shown in good practice on this track, together with Murisier, Aerni and Rogentin (with Chabloz who will do the training tomorrow anyway).
Italy, as it was already known, will propose only Christof Innerhofer, who was medal at Sochi 2014 in the discipline; another era of the specialty itself and very low chances for the blue, tomorrow at the start with the number 14.
It goes without saying that participation, but it is logical given that in CdM no combined competitions have been played for two seasons, it is really at the limits with just 32 participants in the test and therefore even less for the race on Thursday, with the Chinese Xu and Zhang completing the startlist.
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MEN'S COMBINED - BEIJING 2022
Test startlist: 1 Crawford, 2 Mayer, 3 Thompson, 4 Jansrud, 5 Pinturault, 6 Chabloz, 7 Szollos, 8 Hrobat, 9 Zabystran, 10 Kilde, 11 Schwarz, 12 Cochran-Siegle, 13 Murisier, 14 Innerhofer, 15 Jocher, 16 Kriechmayr, 17 Philip, 18 Aerni, 19 Meillard, 20 Rogentin.
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