Brignone with 7, Bassino 13 and Goggia 17 for Garmisch's first super-g: the weather is the great unknown

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Brignone with 7, Bassino 13 and Goggia 17 for Garmisch's first super-g: the weather is the great unknown

The startlist of the first of the two races in Bavaria (Saturday, 11.00 am), after the missed tests and the cancellation of the descent. Gut-Behrami, specialty leader, will start with 9. Venier chooses the '1 leaving the blue at the bottom of the first group (Curtoni forced to 19).

A huge unknown, that of the weather conditions that in Garmisch-Partenkirchen still promise a lot of humidity and rain even for the race weekend, but there is the desire to bring home the last pre-world stage of the Cup of the female world. So much so that he gave up the descent, to reconvert the races on Kandahar into two super-gs, the fourth and fifth of the season. The first is scheduled for Saturday, with start at 11.00 (live TV on Eurosport and Rai Sport) and Stephanie Venier who opted for bib n ° 1. The Austrian, in fact, was able to choose before Goggia and Curtoni, ninth and tenth in the specialty WCSL, and with the fear that the fund could soon be ruined in these conditions, also considering the fact that the track was designed by the same technician of the Wunderteam, the former downhill skier Florian Scheiber, here is the choice against the current who thus left numbers 17 and 19 to Sofia and Elena. Two of the eight blue points for the appointment in Bavaria, in which Michelle Gisin does not take part, like Wendy Holdener and Mikaela Shiffrin. Present instead Tessa Worley (bib 12) and Alice Robinson (with 38), in addition of course to the expected protagonists of the super-g. Starting with the dominatrix of the last two races and red bib Lara Gut-Behrami, who chose number 9 and will therefore already have Tippler (3) as references, second in Crans-Montana, Corinne Suter with 5 (the Swiss won the super-g of Garmisch a year ago) and Federica Brignone herself, starting with the 7th immediately after Francesca Marsaglia, back from the great 4th place last Sunday. After the Ticino, “hot” numbers from 13 by Marta Bassino, 14 by Petra Vlhova and 15 by Ester Ledecka, first of all by Goggia and Curtoni. The other three blue at the starting gate will be Laura Pirovano (23), Roberta Melesi (32) and Nadia Delago with 45. In the season Italy, as well as downhill and giant, has always climbed the podium in super-g with two third places of Brignone between Val d''Isère and Crans-Montana, in addition to the second of Marta Bassino in St. Anton. All or almost, however, will depend on the crazy Garmisch weather (even if so far the forecasts have taken us in full) and a "plan B" does not exist, after having already changed the program, since it has been excluded from being able to "extend" the race weekend to Monday. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST SUPER-G FEMALE - GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN Startlist: 1 Venier, 2 Lie, 3 Tippler, 4 Haehlen, 5 C. Suter, 6 Marsaglia, 7 Brignone, 8 Puchner, 9 Gut-Behrami, 10 Nufer, 11 Mowinckel, 12 Worley, 13 Bassino, 14 Vlhova, 15 Ledecka , 16 Raedler, 17 Goggia, 18 Gauthier, 19 E. Curtoni, 20 Haaser, 23 Pirovano, 32 Melesi, 45 Nadia Delago.
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