In Garmisch the weather worries: the first test is already at risk, Gisin and Shiffrin will not be there

Snow and rain are expected from Thursday to Sunday, with descents and super-gs that will not even see the Swiss as the protagonist, who prefers to recover from a World Cup perspective and so far has struggled with speed. If you compete, Gut-Behrami and the blue will be able to take advantage of it.

Wednesday 27 January 2021 4 minutes reading time

The classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen climate. Snow mixed with rain and lots of humidity, this indicates the weather for the next four days, those that should see women as protagonists for the last stage of the World Cup before Cortina 2021. Tomorrow the first test of the descent on Kandahar scheduled for Saturday, but there is a real risk that we will have to change the menu which then includes the fourth seasonal super-g on Sunday. Considering that the giant canceled in Semmering must already be recovered and everything is silent about that race now missed a month ago, there is little to be happy about. The weather situation, combined with the fact that she trained very little in speed and downhill, seemed far from her accustomed levels (although she finished tenth in the second round of Crans-Montana), led Michelle Gisin to give up the Bavarian stage, preferring rest and train with a view to the World Cup. However, an important choice was that of the 27-year-old Swiss woman, who yesterday at Kronplatz arrived 6 gates from her first, very probable victory in the giant: the sixth place in the race on the Erta still allowed Gisin to shorten to -100 from Petra Vlhova in the fight, very tight, for the absolute World Cup. Michelle, who in speed this year obtained the 8th place in the super-g of St. Anton as best result, thus leaves room (as long as one manages to compete) to Gut-Behrami and also to the blue, Goggia first and foremost but also Bassino herself, to jump behind if not in front of Petra Vlhova who, in any case, will be there in Garmisch to defend her leadership. As for all stages with downhill and super-g, we will not see Mikaela Shiffrin; the American has carried out the first speed training, but will aim straight for the coup between combined and super-g at the World Championships in Cortina, before devoting herself to giant and slalom, where she still has to put kilometers and poles in her legs to find herself 100% and be able to try to win another world title in the review starting on February 8th.

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