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Rarely have there been such a positive start for the blue of the alpine ski teams in the history of the World Cup.
Monday 5 December 2016 4 minutes reading time
Only twice Italy had put together many podiums as many as this year, seven races in less than a year for men and women, even twelve. In 1972-1973 the seven podiums were put together in eleven races and came all the men, the rest was the time when the Blue Avalanche was exploding, in 1991-1992 the races were only ten and even podiums were six men and one by women, the first of the fantastic career of Deborah Compagnoni.
In both cases, however, unlike this winter there had been some victories: the first time two of Piero Gros virtually cradle and remains the youngest ever winner of a competition of the World Cup and obviously the young in giant slalom; the second time he won two a Alberto Tomba peak of his career. The most interesting aspect regarding this season is that the podium rose five athletes, unlike other occasions mentioned that there had been four. The only repeating was Sofia Goggia, who yesterday moreover entered the history of our women's ski because it took the podium in three different specialties, as Compagnoni and Isolde Kostner.
Besides the Bergamo it is the only year to have repeated, but for now just one set in the top three can boast Marta Bassino, Manfred Moelgg, Dominik Paris and Peter Fill. Another important aspect is that they are women to be climbed on the podium several times, four against three, although their truth have played seven games against five so in the end the proportion podiums / best races of men. What all this means? We have a team of the most compact that there are in the world that can boast of athletes from the podium or even victory in all speclalità "individual" of alpine skiing except the men's giant slalom and especially the women, which has been for years the race in which we are most in need.
Will not last long because Austria, although decimated among women and results in crisis among men Hirscher aside, has a base of participants so broad that we will outperform in the long run, but it can not be coincidence that Italy is topped the list of countries and above all with the fundamental contribution of the blue, that command the rankings for women's nations. He missed victory, sure, but sooner or later we will come: we have both some men and some women are able to do the bang.
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