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The Olympic champion precedes Suter, but Curtoni, Brignone, Marsaglia and Nadia Delago (5 Italians in the first 7 places!) Are also very fast thinking about the descents on Friday and Saturday. Marta Bassino has chosen not to start.
Wednesday 20 January 2021 4 minutes reading time
There is a lot of blue up there, even with 5 athletes among the top 7, in the upper districts of a ranking commanded by Sofia Goggia, for the first of the two tests scheduled towards the Crans-Montana descents that will be staged on Friday and Saturday .
The feeling of Bergamo with Mont Lachaux is known (victory in 2019, absent last year due to injury), let's add Sofia's great form in this discipline and here is the best time in ease, with two tenths of a margin on the great rival for the crystal ball downhill, Corinne Suter, conceding even just over 3 tenths to the Swiss in the last 10 seconds of today's training.
So much blue, in fact, because Elena Curtoni ends third at 35 cents from her teammate, but she was fighting for the first time trial until the last intermediate. In a test that was interrupted for over a quarter of an hour after the departure of Lara Gut-Behrami with bib 1 to fix some doors, another long stop came due to the fall of Nina Ortlieb, for which an injury is feared serious.
Marta Bassino has not left, who has chosen to give up this first test and will evaluate, as already announced in recent days, whether to aim directly only at the super-g on Sunday to save energy in this authentic tour de force, while the other protagonists of the general experienced an alternating day: very well Federica Brignone, fourth at 51 cents, 1 better than Ester Ledecka and in front of Gut-Behrami herself, also positive the test of Vlhova, just outside the top ten and just above the second of gap from Goggia, while Gisin finished almost 3 seconds.
Also in difficulty appeared Breezy Johnson (+ 1 ”87), always on the downhill podium in the season of his explosion, as did Austria with Tippler, Siebenhofer and Venier. After the great blow suffered in the super-g of St. Anton, Francesca Marsaglia returned very well, setting the sixth fastest time just 62 cents from Goggia, but Nadia Delago was also very fast, great seventh (at 7 tenths).
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