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The January 15, 1995 is staged slalom of Kitzb & uuml; hel that concludes the first of two weekend that would give an important answer regarding the conquest of the World Cup by Alberto Tomba. For l & rsquo; Emilian & egrave; a real triumph.
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After the two runs of the day before his opponents pi & ugrave; Hazardous did not get the points needed to get back on course, l & rsquo; ace of Castel de & rsquo; Britti responds putting the & rsquo; eighth consecutive victory in slalom. No chances for opponents, the Tomb of the 1994-95 & egrave; simply unbeatable. In the lead since the first heat, the Bomb, as usual, is not limited to manage and is not content with a placement: attacks from the first all & rsquo; last pole going to triumph with 82 cents ahead of Jure Ko & scaron; ir, which numbers in hand is becoming the rival pi & ugrave; dangerous for Alberto also in optical crystal ball. The Slovenian has only one flaw: & egrave; less strong Tomb and suffers terribly his bulky presence, so that the entire career of this potential star players will come & agrave; not only limited but also broken by the awareness of being a loser.
The podium & egrave; completed by Ole Christian Furuseth, for the first time this season in the top three and able to cry l & rsquo; Austria, who after being beaten by Alphand downhill pi & ugrave; important of & rsquo; year feels deprived of the podium in slalom: Mario Reiter and Michael Tritscher close indeed to the fourth and fifth place respectively. Furuseth & egrave; also the victim of a minor accident without consequences: reached the finish line and giratosi to scrutinize the response of the stopwatch, Norwegian & ndash; conscious to be back on the podium exactly one year away from & rsquo; last time & ndash; begins to exult not realizing that they have behind Sébastien Amiez, arrived just before him but still engaged in the rituals of a race that shut & agrave; sixth. L & rsquo; impact & egrave; violent, Amiez has the worse and broke her lip but eventually the two shake hands without having reported no physical consequence of relief. Umpteenth defaillance instead for the & rsquo; another Italian, who in only twenty-second Fabrizio Tescari a man capable of scoring points.
The weekend of Kitzbuhel & egrave; triumphal for Tomba also following the results of the combined: the victory goes to Marc Girardelli fact, he who among the polyvalent is proving the pi & ugrave; in form, but in the overall standings & egrave; still staccatissimo following a start of the season extremely negative. Second place for the & rsquo; harmless Harald Strand Nilsen, third G & uuml; Günther Mader, only fourth Kjetil Andre & Aring; modt, whose knee problem continues to condition him in the tests faster and therefore intended to abdicate.
In the overall standings Tomb remains firmly in command with 850 points against the 430 of Kosir, 394 and 382 of Aamodt Mader. Three races that could reopen every speech, l & rsquo; blue has lost only 32 points against Mader and 18 from Girardelli, climbed to 358. The next week could be decisive: after the first historic SuperG to be held & agrave; Streif on the next day, a new three days with two downhills, a slalom and a combined in Wengen can theoretically revolutionize a ranking that still seems well defined.
SLALOM Kitzb & uuml; HEL January 15, 1995 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. & nbsp; TOMB Alberto (ITA) 1: 37.26 2. KO & Scaron; IR Jure (SLO) +0.82 3. Ole Christian Furuseth (NOR) +0.94 4. REITER Mario (AUT) +1.36 5. Michael Tritscher (AUT ) +2.06
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COMBINED Kitzb & uuml; HEL January 15, 1995 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. & nbsp; GIRARDELLI Marc (LUX) 3: 23.71 2. STRAND NILSEN Harald Christian (NOR) +1.77 3. MADER G & uuml; nther (AUT) +2.14 4. & Aring; modt Kjetil Andre (NOR) +2.16 5. Lasse Kjus (NOR) +2.44
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