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At 10.30 the start of the third specialty race, with the great favorite from Bergamo (and the chance to fly to the top of the general): Curtoni chooses 3, Bassino with 6 will precede Sofia, watch out for Suter and Mowinckel with 9 and 10 first by Nadia Delago. Eight blue in the race and the absence of Gut-Behrami who weighs a lot.
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An appointment with history, to seize pearl number 7 in consecutive disputed and won descents.
Sofia Goggia goes to the attack of the Oreiller-Killy of Val d''Isère with the opportunity to also take the lead of the general classification of the World Cup, before the "direct confrontation" on Sunday with Mikaela Shiffrin in super-g . The American, as known, will not be at the start of the third seasonal descent scheduled for Saturday (starting at 10.30, live on Eurosport 1 and Rai Sport), as well as Ledecka and Schmidhofer, who obviously did not compete in the tests for various reasons, and Lara Gut-Behrami who, news this afternoon that she has already been around the world, tested positive at Covid and will lose the entire weekend in Savoy (and also the giants of Courchevel).
And so Goggia chose the number 7 to look for what would also be the fourth seal of the season, anticipating in fact all the main rivals for the challenge to the "OK": before the Bergamo one, we will see Gagnon (the '1 is certainly not the maximum, but the Canadian here is very fast) and a brilliant Elena Curtoni with the 3, before Huetter and Tippler.
Marta Bassino has drawn 6 and will look for a top 15 that would already be a good launch towards the super-g on Sunday, then after the red bib, here is Stuhec (very fast at the top, but really too much in difficulty even in practice in the more technical sections) and especially Corinne Suter and Ragnhild Mowinckel with the 9 and 10.
Nadia Delago, twice sixth in Lake Louise, will try to improve further and will play her cards at the gate with the No. 11, followed by dangerous athletes like Scheyer and Johnson, while Federica Brignone will have the 16 and after the Aosta Valley it will be necessary to do the count with another not bad triptych in this technical context, namely Siebenhofer, Gisin and in particular Mirjam Puchner, today the fastest in practice in front of Goggia herself.
Nicol Delago, with 23, will be the sixth of the eight blue at the start, Francesca Marsaglia will challenge the "O.K." with 28 and Roberta Melesi with 42, among only 46 athletes who will compete on Saturday.
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FEMALE DESCENT - VAL D''ISERE
Startlist: 1 Gagnon, 2 Venier, 3 Curtoni, 4 Huetter, 5 Tippler, 6 Bassino, 7 Goggia, 8 Stuhec, 9 C. Suter, 10 Mowinckel, 11 Nadia Delago, 12 Scheyer, 13 Johnson, 14 Nufer, 15 Weidle, 16 Brignone, 17 Siebenhofer, 18 Gisin, 19 Puchner, 20 Flury, 23 Nicol Delago, 28 Marsaglia, 42 Melesi.
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GOGGIA Sofia
JOHNSON Breezy
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