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The near podium at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee confirms the enormous qualities of the Cuneo player also in super-g, with the pass for the Games also in this discipline which seems to have been done. And to think that he didn't do any tests and descents on this track ...
Sunday 16 January 2022 3 minutes reading time
A jewel that is being polished in the most important period, the one that will take us to the Beijing Olympics.
The giant podiums, between Courchevel and Kranjska Gora, had given us back a Marta Bassino already in excellent condition, but today's fourth place in the super-g of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee is perhaps even more important if we think about the performance of the Cuneo, competitive at the top levels on a very tough track that he knew (he was third in the 2020 combined, with super-g heats in the morning where he did very well behind Brignone), but which he did not try between the official training on Thursday and Friday and the descent of Saturday.
In the more technical sections, even in this discipline, “Bax” is from the podium area with no ifs and buts, even if this year has not yet arrived; not surprisingly, it will be she (unless sensational decisions) take the four bib in the Olympic super-g, in that race where the expectations will be enormous on the blue, if we think that Goggia and Brignone have already won this season and Curtoni has climbed twice on the podium.
An approach to the Games that for Marta will pass from a week of speed in Cortina, to then focus very strongly on the giant of Kronplatz on 25 January and then, almost certainly, skip the end-of-month races in Garmisch. She spoke about it herself in the post-race to Rai Sport. “I'm happy with my fourth place, I felt a bit 'on the limit but, actually, I realized that it was a super-g where you had to let go of skiing. Now I will go home for two days (the blue trained all week after Kranjska Gora in Val di Fassa, arriving on Friday evening in Austria), then the idea is to do the whole program in Cortina (rehearsals from Thursday, descent on Saturday and super-g on Sunday), then Kronplatz and ... we'll see for Garmisch ”.
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