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Saturday (11.30) the great challenge at Olympia delle Tofane: the Bergamo driver leads the prediction, Siebenhofer and Gut-Behrami will start before her. The American, on the ground also today in practice, raises the white flag (and says goodbye to the dreams of a specialty cup): there will be eight blue at the gate.
Friday 21 January 2022 7 minutes reading time
With the uncertainty of the wind that has already made itself felt in the two official trainings on Thursday and Friday, in Cortina d''Ampezzo it is finally time to find its World Cup races, three years after the last time ( with Covid for the 2020 finals and the 2021 World Cup in the middle), from the fifth seasonal descent scheduled for Saturday to the super-g on Sunday.
Tomorrow the start at 11.30 (time adapted to the needs of the program change in Kitzbuehel), with live TV on Eurosport and Rai Sport, the new absence of Breezy Johnson, who in the end decided to give up after falling again in practice today (he had done well on Thursday, fourth, on his return after having skipped Altenmarkt-Zauchensee due to the blow to the knee suffered in training a few days earlier), he takes the second in a ranking of specialties that sees Sofia Goggia firmly in command despite the "zero ”Last Saturday.
The Bergamo rider wants her sixth win of the season and to be able to fight back for the absolute crystal ball, also considering that Shiffrin and Vlhova aren't there. The Bergamo-born, first in both tests, is the absolute favorite for an encore over the Olympia delle Tofane who crowned her in 2018 (she skipped the next edition due to injury), but the rivals are there starting from Ramona Siebenhofer , just the one who won twice in the descents three years ago and is in a great period of form.
Sofia will start with bib n ° 7, the Austrian with 3 after compatriot Puchner (1) and Michelle Gisin (2), now third in the last test. After Scheyer (4) here is Lara Gut-Behrami, twice world champion in Cortina 11 months ago, even if downhill, despite having won at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, she starts a step below the prediction. After Goggia, Federica Brignone immediately with the bib n ° 8, after having done very well in Austria, also downhill, and in the tests here on the Olympia delle Tofane.
Corinne Suter, who won the world title on this track, will start in ninth place and we will see if she can find herself at her best level, but also pay attention to Ragnhild Mowinckel who smells the scent of the Olympics and today was very bright (second). Nadia Delago will start after the first technical break, in practice she was not very fast but she has an exceptional performance this year downhill, 4th in the last run and with the dream of the first podium not too far away. Sister Nicol will start with 14, returned to the second sub-group thanks to the absence of Johnson, and will lead an all-blue trio with Elena Curtoni, bib number 15 and Marta Bassino, who also disputes the descent and then attacks the maximum result in super- g, with 16.
Ester Ledecka (17) this year has not yet shown her maximum potential, but she is capable of everything, then Nufer, Tippler and Flury will close the top 20 while Italy will also propose Francesca Marsaglia's n ° 30, at desperate for a weighty result for the Olympics, and Roberta Melesi with 44. There will be Karoline Pichler, who looks to the super-g on Sunday and then to the giant next Tuesday at Kronplatz.
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FEMALE DESCENT - CORTINA D''AMPEZZO
Startlist: 1 Puchner, 2 Gisin, 3 Siebenhofer, 4 Scheyer, 5 Gut-Behrami, 6 Gagnon, 7 Goggia, 8 Brignone, 9 C. Suter, 10 Mowinckel, 11 Nadia Delago, 12 Stuhec, 13 Weidle, 14 Nicol Delago, 15 Curtoni, 16 Bassino, 17 Ledecka, 18 Nufer, 19 Tippler, 20 Flury, 30 Marsaglia, 44 Melesi.
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GOGGIA Sofia
SIEBENHOFER Ramona
LEDECKA Ester
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