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Saturday (11.45 am) we return to the "Karl Schranz" after eight years and with many hopes for Italy, starting with the specialty leader from Bergamo and the very fast test rider from Cuneo. Ledecka will have 9, Brignone will have 11.
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Eight years after that success of Alice McKennis (injured in the opening in Val d''Isère) for a few cents ahead of Daniela Merighetti, who now comments on the races for Eurosport, St. Anton returns to host a World Cup descent , for the third appointment with female speed this season.
The temple of "Karl Schranz" has already been tested in the two days of testing, run in optimal conditions and on a decidedly technical slope which, on Saturday starting at 11.45 (live on Eurosport and Rai Sport), will offer a very interesting show and very open, given that the gaps could be very small as seen on Thursday, when Tippler and Gut-Behrami signed the best time trial ex aequo, and today with Ledecka ahead of Lie for 4 cents.
Just the last training signaled the leap in quality of Sofia Goggia, back there in front (and in practice in Val d''Isère it was already understood that in the race things would go well ...) with the fourth time and tomorrow competing to defend the red bib as leader of the specialty, which he holds in cohabitation with Corinne Suter. The Olympic champion, choosing third in the bib draw, opted for number 5 (today she had 1 in practice) and will start shortly before Suter herself (with 7) and Ledecka, at the start with the 9.
Immediately after the rider from Bergamo there will be Marta Bassino, bib number 6, with the very fast driver from Cuneo in practice and, who knows, with the dream of that first downhill success already touched on last year in Bansko. A very dangerous athlete like Nina Ortlieb will open the race, and the level will immediately be very high with Gisin (who is suffering here) and Gut-Behrami after the Austrian. After Tamara Tippler with 10 we will see Federica Brignone with 11, called the Aosta Valley to bring home an important result after the fall remedied downhill on Oreiller-Killy; Fede will follow, for an all-blue hat-trick, Marsaglia with 12 and Curtoni with 13, but it will be a long match with Johnson (15), Venier (16), Stuhec (17), Weidle (19) and Lie (20) very dangerous , while cup leader Petra Vlhova caught the 18.
The last three blue at the start will be Nadia Delago with 21, Laura Pirovano with 23 and Roberta Melesi, bib 46 among the only 48 athletes at the starting gate.
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FEMALE DESCENT - ST. ANTON
Startlist: 1 Ortlieb, 2 Gisin, 3 Gut-Behrami, 4 Mowinckel, 5 Goggia, 6 Bassino, 7 C. Suter, 8 Siebenhofer, 9 Ledecka, 10 Tippler, 11 Brignone, 12 Marsaglia, 13 E. Curtoni, 14 Haehlen, 15 Johnson, 16 Venier, 17 Stuhec, 18 Vlhova, 19 Weidle, 20 Lie, 21 Nadia Delago, 23 Pirovano, 46 Melesi.
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