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After the two Sprints, which gave Italy the first podium of the season, the sixth stage of the World Cup continues with the relays: tomorrow at 2.30 pm the girls will take to the track, on Saturday the men, where the Azzurri can play for something. important.
Thursday 13 January 2022 3 minutes reading time
Third relay of the season and penultimate before the Olympic Games: it's time for the technical staff of the various national teams to experiment to find the right line-up in view of the event that will award the medals on February 16th. After Oestersund's 6th place and Hochfilzen's 13th place (without Wierer), Italy is looking for confirmation and a bit of morale.
And to hunt for the best result of the season, there will be a front-wheel drive quartet with Vittozzi at launch and Wierer in the second half. With Sanfilippo closing, we will have three quarters of the same formation that in January 2018 closed in the square of honor behind Germany. Four years ago Nicole Gontier was in third place, tomorrow Samuela Comola, preferred to Carrara, will be in action. The tactical scheme will clearly see Italy go to attack in the first half of the match, and then defend themselves in the two final stages.
Despite all the difficulties encountered by Italdonne in this first part of the season (apart from Wierer's podium), the top 6 seems to be within reach, given that listed nations such as Sweden, Norway and Germany present themselves at the starting line with several defections.
The yellow and blue, returning from the success in Hochfilzen, leave the Oeberg sisters at rest and will have a reworked formation with Skottheim, Nilsson, Brorsson and Magnusson. The norge, orphans of Eckhoff, who left Ruhpolding early to train for the Olympic Games, and without Tandrevold and Lien, field Roeiseland first, to then give space to Knotten, Erdal and Femsteinevik. The Germans will not be able to count on Preuss and therefore field Voigt, Hinz, Hildebrand, with Herrmann in closing. A typical formation (or almost) for Belarus, which starts with the underdogs together with France (which deploys Chloe Chevalier and leaves Bescond at rest), with Russia slightly behind.
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