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First training (shortened): Bergamo starts with the right foot towards Saturday's descent. Ramona precedes the companions Ortblie, Tippler and Schmidhofer, with Ledecka entering the fourth square.
Thursday 19 December 2019 4 minutes reading time
A trial of 75 seconds, on a track shortened in an important way and that should be then what the athletes will face in the race, since tomorrow it will be very difficult to play another training with snowfall coming.
In Val d''Isère the first test of the women's downhill set for Saturday (10.30 am) on the Oreiller-Killy was staged, and as it was fairly predictable there are definitely sliding athletes up front, with Austria dominating (albeit with clearly reduced gaps) starting from the best time of Ramona Siebenhofer.
The Salzburg team precedes their teammates Nina Ortlieb (24 cents and growing) and Tamara Tippler (+ 0 "26), with the red bib Ester Esterecka always there, fourth at 32 cents and in front of another aquilotta, Nicole Schmidhofer who took 4 tenths.
Attention also to Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, sixth at 54 cents and ahead of Ilka Stuhec, at the start with bib 1 and with a good feeling with the "O.K." after a difficult start to the season when he returned. And it is ... O.K. also the test carried out by Sofia Goggia, eighth at 68 cents from Siebenhofer and with an excellent central section of the track, to close ahead of the Swiss with Haehlen, Gut-Behrami, Corinne Suter and Gisin.
The other blue ones are quite far: Nicol Delago at 1 "47, Francesca Marsaglia at 1" 62, Marta Bassino at 2 "16, with the Piedmontese who bet on the combined super-g and slalom like Federica Brignone, who arrived at 2 "31. Among them Elena Curtoni (2 "19), and finally Nadia Delago with 3" 00 of posting.
Petra Vlhova is also in evidence, clearly thinking of Sunday's race (only 1 "05 for the Slovakian) while, as is known, Mikaela Shiffrin did not join, which we should see only in combination.
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