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Women's World Cup: Saturday (10.30 and 13.30 the two heats) the opening of specialties on the Finnish snow. We expect the great confrontation between the Slovak, the US and Liensberger, at the start with the No. 6. Peterlini with the 28, then Bassino (31) and the returning Della Mea and Rossetti to look for points and confidence.
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Time of third race of the season, after the giant of Soelden and the parallel of Lech / Zuers, with the "double" of Levi to kick off the 2021/22 of the slalom in what is now the traditional location of the opening of specialty.
In the heart of Lapland, between tomorrow and Sunday two already very important appointments in terms of the absolute World Cup, given that Petra Vlhova and Mikaela Shiffrin in particular will play very heavy points. It starts on Saturday, with the first heat (German layout and ... exceptional forerunner with the world champion Sebastian Foss-Solevaag) at 10.30 Italian, 11.30 in Finland, and second at 13.30 (Swiss design), always in live TV on Eurosport 1 and Rai Sport.
Low temperatures and "Levi Black" which seems to be in really good conditions, for a first race that will open the Norwegian Kristin Lysdahl, fresh from her first podium in the World Cup with third place in the parallel last Saturday. There will be fireworks immediately because the number 2 was drawn for Petra Vlhova, who scored a double in Levi in 2020 and prepared these slalom in the smallest details, training on site for almost two weeks and giving up on Lech / Zuers on a par. by Mikaela Shiffrin, who only arrived in the town beyond the Arctic Circle on Wednesday, but wants to take back the throne and tomorrow will wear bib number 3, she who has the record of successes here with a four-of-a-kind (against three hurrahs of Vlhova).
With the 4 here is Wendy Holdener, on her seasonal debut after having remedied the fracture of both scaphoids at the beginning of October and with few workouts in her legs; We shouldn't ask too much of the Swiss, however twice fourth in 2020 on a track she likes, while Lena Duerr will start fifth just before the reigning world champion and winner of the last specialty cup, Katharina Liensberger.
The Austrian will give life to an already stellar confrontation, especially in the second part of last season, with Shiffrin and Vlhova, but soon we expect Michelle Gisin (bib 7) at those levels, who cannot yet be at her best after contracting the Pfeiffer's glandular fever and losing a lot of work between summer and fall. The second sub-group will be opened by Paula Moltzan, then in series Hector, Mair and Andreja Slokar, triumphing in Lech / Zuers and anything but to be underestimated, she already fifth in slalom at the Cortina World Championships.
After the Slovenian with number 11, we find the Canadian St-Germain and the long-awaited return of Anna Swenn-Larsson, out of the races for over 21 months with a thousand problems, but also a lot of confidence that she has worked well in recent months. Dubovska and Bucik will precede the Austrians Gritsch and Truppe, the first out of 3pm, where there are many reasons of interest, if we think of Rast, Mielzynski, Meillard with n ° 26 and then finally ... the blue .
Seven girls of Devid Salvadori in the race, in the first year without the captain Irene Curtoni and with the forfeit, announced this morning, which forced Serena Viviani to raise the white flag after the injury suffered in the right elbow.
We count a lot on Martina Peterlini, the only one in the thirty with the bib number 28, but also on Marta Bassino (n ° 31), who did very well at Levi 12 months ago, impressing much more than the "only" 18th place obtained in the two races. It would already be a success to get the pass for the 2nd heat, considering that it is the post-cruciate knee return in the final of last season, for Lara Della Mea (bib 34) and Marta Rossetti (with 36), same goal as Roberta Midali, at the start for 53rd, Sophie Mathiou (63), in her second slalom in CdM, and Anita Gulli who will have to fight, with the number 67 (78 in total the athletes registered), with an even more "tough" track, for one of the many young players included in the group who will face the whole cup season opening a new cycle.
Which starts right from Levi.
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FEMALE SLALOM - LEVI
Startlist 1st heat: 1 Lysdahl, 2 Vlhova, 3 Shiffrin, 4 Holdener, 5 Duerr, 6 Liensberger, 7 Gisin, 8 Moltzan, 9 Hector, 10 Mair, 11 Slokar, 12 St-Germain, 13 Swenn-Larsson, 14 Dubovska , 15 Bucik, 28 Peterlini, 31 Bassino, 34 Della Mea, 36 Rossetti, 53 Midali, 63 Mathiou, 67 Gulli.
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