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Thursday (at 3.30 the descent, at 7.15 the slalom is scheduled), with just 27 members, the Frenchman will go on the hunt for the first title at the Games: the Swiss offer more medal cards, the world champion Schwarz must find his best level to play it. Kilde will be there, Mayer and Kriechmayr will not: the official startlist.
Wednesday 9 February 2022 6 minutes reading time
A race, the fifth of this Beijing Olympics, which we fear may also be the one with the least interest of the eleven proposed by alpine skiing. Yes, because if the women's combined will still propose a very high level comparison between champions like Shiffrin, Vlhova, Brignone, Holdener and Gisin above all, the men's one risks being "ugly", let's put it this way.
First of all, a fact: there are just 27 members (including the two Chinese Xu and Zhang) and, in essence, less than a dozen really competitive athletes for a medal chance. Too little, but the speech has been clear to everyone for some time and the discussions on the opportunity to propose the combination again even in the big events, after that in the last two seasons she has not been seen in the World Cup again, will continue at least for a few months. .
The reigning champion is Marcel Hirscher, who in PyeongChang overtook the main favorite of Thursday's race by a couple of tenths, starting at 3.30 with the descent followed at 7.15 by the slalom, traced by Fabien Munier. Yes, Alexis Pinturault's coach who has a great chance to win his first Olympic title, perhaps one of the last opportunities for a champion of his caliber.
The 30-year-old from Courchevel will start with the number 13 downhill, while the first name to keep an eye on is that of Marco Schwarz (No. 5), world champion a year ago in Cortina beating Pinturault for 4 cents. Austria which will not have Kriechmayr (who today disputed the last downhill test, finishing with the best time in front of Schwarz himself) and Mayer, but will propose Johannes Strolz, with the number 6, to look for a surprise with the winner of the slalom of Adelboden who , in training, he did not go badly in speed.
The candidate for the role of co-favorite, however, is Loic Meillard who can keep the level of Pinturault downhill and then play it in the slalom, where we remember it will start again from the arrival order of the 1st heat. It is likely that Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who decided to try it even with very little slalom training, can sign the best time in the speed test, to then start with bib 1 between the narrow poles.
The Canadian Trevor Philp (n ° 19 in downhill) may be a candidate for medals, but above all the other Swiss Aerni (world champion in 2017) and Murisier. For Italy only Christof Innerhofer at the gate, with the number 12 downhill: of course, we are talking about an Olympic medalist in the discipline, with that bronze of Sochi 2014, but almost everything has changed since those days and Inner, who was in slalom anything but bad, he will have to invent a miracle to play it up front, after the great disappointments suffered in the fast races on Monday and Tuesday.
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MEN'S COMBINED - BEIJING 2022
Startlist 1st run: 1 Szollos, 2 Hrobat, 3 Zabystran, 4 Gower, 5 Schwarz, 6 Strolz, 7 Thompson, 8 Naralocnik, 9 Murisier, 10 Kilde, 11 Crawford, 12 Innerhofer, 13 Pinturault, 14 Pfiffner, 15 Meillard, 16 Aerni, 17 Jocher, 18 Haaser, 19 Philp, 20 Chabloz.
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Johannes Strolz, what an incredible story! It is gold medal in combined, 34 years after dad Hubert
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