Alpine SkiingThe cup of Tomba
Getty Images
The World Cup Alpine Skiing 1994-95 culminating in Bormio with the current formula (a race for each specialty & agrave;) but that & egrave; only the second after that of Vail experience of & rsquo; previous year.
Sunday 15 March 2015 7 minutes reading time
The first race & egrave; downhill. L & rsquo; Italy points to a coat and never ever got pi & ugrave; even closer in the future: with Tomba who gi & agrave; won the cup slalom and which lacks only the math to celebrate the crystal ball and that of absolute giant, and with Runggaldier one step away from the cup super-G, & egrave; Kristian Ghedina l & rsquo; ensign blue that aims to bring to Italy for the first time the trophy downhill.
L & rsquo; Cortina, which boasts 49-point margin of Luc Alphand, 50 Armin Assinger and 52 Patrick Ortlieb, part with the bib number 1, dispute a good race and waits impatiently to the parterre the rivals, who choose to leave pi & ugrave; forward. Up to number 11 the cup & egrave; firmly in his hands: the Austrians, while defending himself well on a track unsuitable to their characteristics, do not create problems with Assinger that ends behind and Ortlieb that surpasses only 6 cents, just to think that in three can squeeze in between. Then it's up to the French, who after a couple of relatively disappointing performance finds the right feeling hoisting the lead with almost half a second margin over Ortlieb and Ghedina. To allow all & rsquo; blue to win the cup, no one else should fit between him and Alphand, and instead Peter Rzehak, certainly not one of the big specialty & agrave; despite the square d & rsquo; honor obtained in Wengen, is a close second mocking l & rsquo; ampezzano of only 7 cents.
When all are best gi & agrave; fallen, to Ghedina need someone beat Alphand. Not make Werner Perathoner, at the end eighth, but AJ Kitt and Lasse Kjus, two of the boys pi & ugrave; fit, rekindle hopes registering the best split up in the mid & agrave; track. Both for & ograve; give way to the grand finale of Alphand and are placed second and third respectively. There & rsquo; & egrave; pi & ugrave; nothing to do when success seemed dell & rsquo; Ampezzo, l & rsquo; last race turns the tables by rewarding the French, who wins cos & Igrave; the first of the three cups that launched his career as the best downhill skier of years & lsquo; 90.
For Ghedina & egrave; a terrible disappointment, even though in the cold you can & ograve; say that the defeat has not been gained in the race in Bormio but in Val d & rsquo; Isere early in the season, when the & rsquo; blue, perhaps not even aware of their own means, remedies & ograve; a thirteenth and a twenty-seventh, Quest & rsquo; last searing particularly when you consider that that day boasted ski fast. If we add the brainy decisions of the FIS, which first homologous then cancels the results of Aspen and Kvitfjell, clearly favorable to & rsquo; Ampezzo, here's how the cup perhaps more & ugrave; prestigious alpine skiing becomes l & rsquo; not only won by an Italian in a memorable 1994-95 however that made us rediscover a champion whose career seemed cut off from & rsquo; accident & rsquo; car suffered a few years earlier.
If Ghedina cries, Alberto Tomba pu & ograve; celebrate mathematics achievement crystal ball. The result was not at issue, but a bit of luck has always been part of the baggage of & rsquo; Emilia, which can & ograve; finally let go. The dedication & egrave; for l & rsquo; friend-rival Thomas Fogd & ouml ;, involved a month earlier in a terrible accident that will force & agrave; to spend the rest of his days in a wheelchair. Only regret l & rsquo; cancellation of the world of the Sierra Nevada, which would have probably seen Tomb dominate both the giant slalom. But fate is riscatter & agrave; abundantly l & rsquo; following year, when the World Championships in Spain is potr & agrave; hold regularly and regaler & agrave; results unique to alpine skiing Italian.
DESCENT BORMIO March 15, 1995 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. & nbsp; ALPHAND Luc (FRA) 1: 53.50 2. AJ KITT (USA) +0.29 3. Lasse Kjus (NOR) +0.42 4. Rzehak Peter (AUT) +0.46 5. ORTLIEB Patrick (AUT) +0.47 6. GHEDINA Kristian (ITA) +0.53
Click here for the complete ranking
& Nbsp;
WORLD CUP DOWNHILL MEN 1994-95 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. ALPHAND Luc (FRA) 484 2. GHEDINA Kristian (ITA) 473 3. ORTLIEB Patrick (AUT) 426 4. Assinger Armin (AUT) 419 5. Josef Strobl (AUT) 307
Click here for the complete ranking
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
Primo giorno sulle nevi di El Colorado per Odermatt, via alla missione... Soelden, dove il 25 ottobre cercherà il 4° hurrà
E' cominciato con i gigantisti il camp in Cile per il campionissimo nidvaldese, che si dividerà poi con la velocità a Valle Nevado nelle tre settimane oltreoceano. Al termine, mancherà meno di un mese all'opening di Coppa del Mondo dove Odi cercherà di presentarsi già al top dopo il problema avuto all'anca visto che la concorrenza, e lo storico recente lo dimostra, non mancherà sul Rettenbach...
2