SuperG Tignes, Sunday, December 11, 1994

A & nbsp; vent''anni exact distance, we propose the guide to & nbsp; all races & nbsp; & nbsp that led; Alberto Tomba won his first and only crystal ball. We continue with the & nbsp; SuperG Tignes, quick race which took place before the '11 December 1994.

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The bad weather that rages across the & rsquo; Europe between late autumn and early winter 1994 does not allow different localities & agrave; accommodate the evidence provided. Men jet can make their debut only halfway & agrave; December SuperG in the Tignes race which in turn runs the risk of not being able to run, but that in the end is shifted by one day with the postponement of the second giant next week in Val d & rsquo; Isere. On a track drawn the same way as a downhill winner Patrick Ortlieb, the first and only successful career in SuperG. L & rsquo; Austrian uses his great qualities of smoothness to tame a slope that easy in fact rewards pure racers, relegating supergigantisti-gigantism in reserve positions. & Nbsp; Second place went to Tommy Moe, which tracks cos & Igrave; the result a few months before the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, climbing between the & rsquo; another for the & rsquo; last time in his career on a podium of the World Cup, third & egrave; Luc Alphand, now ready to explode, and finally become one of the pi & ugrave; greatest sprinters of all time. In a & nbsp; ranking very short & nbsp; (Achim Vogt, thirtieth and last to take points of the World Cup, & egrave; trailing by 1 & rdquo; 37 from Ortlieb), the top ten are placed other great interpreters of downhill: fourth a Atle Sk & aring; Rdal not & egrave; supergigantista still able to win two world medals (Sierra Nevada in 1996 and Sestriere in 1997), the Swiss Daniel Mahrer sixth and ninth the American Kyle Rasmussen. Splendid result also from the blue. Missing l & rsquo; acute, but there are four in the top ten and seven into the first twenty-one. The best & egrave; poor Luigi Colturi fifth despite the bib number 45, seventh & egrave; Peter Runggaldier, Werner Perathoner eighth, tenth Luca Cattaneo, Alessandro Fattori thirteenth, seventeenth and twenty-first Peter Kristian Ghedina Vitalini. & Egrave; only the first race, but you can & ograve; guess that for the & rsquo; Italjet sar & agrave; a sensational season. In the overall standings Tomb pu & ograve; smile: despite the bad mood for moving the giant in Val d & rsquo; Isere, track historically hostile to & rsquo; Emilia, the result of & Aring; modt (twenty-third) allows him to stay on the lead with 150 points, followed by Von Gr & uuml; NiGen with 125 , & Aring; modt with 104, 101 and Vogt with Ortlieb with 100. And the next day at Sestriere, in what will be & agrave; the first night slalom in the history of the World Cup Alpine Skiing, Alberto pu & ograve; stretch over rivals. SUPERG TIGNES December 11, 1994 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. ORTLIEB Patrick (AUT) 1: 22:25 2. MOE Tommy (USA) +0.33 3. ALPHAND Luc (FRA) +0.40 4. SK & Aring; Rdal Atle (NOR) +0.45 5. Colturi Luigi (ITA) +0.56 Click here for the complete ranking

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