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Saturday (10.30 am) the third seasonal appointment on the Oreiller-Killy, weather permitting. Sofia takes the 17, the specialty leader on the 19th. Seven the blue in the race.
Friday 20 December 2019 6 minutes reading time
It will be a sprint descent, probably with very small gaps, for the third specialty event after the "double" of Lake Louise that saw Ester Ledecka take the red bib.
On Saturday at 10.30 am in Val d''Isère, the Criterium de la Premiere Neige will also be officially launched, even at the female level, but as for male colleagues last weekend, it will not be easy to take home the two races scheduled on the Oreiller-Killy .
Today a heavy snowfall has forced to cancel the second training, after the one on Thursday that saw the Austrians dominate, but tomorrow morning things should be better, while on Sunday for the first Alpine combined of this World Cup the wind could ruin all. The problem is that on O.K. it will compete on a decidedly reduced track, removed the first 30 seconds of pure or almost smooth running, with a mantle to work in the night to propose conditions at least similar to those that the girls found yesterday in the only test.
The startlist immediately proposes Viktoria Rebensburg with the 1, followed by Haehlen and Ilka Stuhec, who seemed brilliant in the timed test at least compared to the difficult debut of Lake Louise. Federica Brignone will return to racing downhill, after missing the two Canadian races, with bib number 4 and before the Austrian army that will propose Venier (5), Puchner (6), Schmidhofer (9), Tippler (10) and Siebenhofer (13). Among them maximum attention for Corinne Suter, who has yet to unlock with a success but is still there, while the second blue at the start will be Francesca Marsaglia with the 8 and the third Nicol Delago with the 11.
Instead, two of the big favorites will be very close, Sofia Goggia who chose the 17 and the specialty leader Ester Ledecka with the 19th. The picture of the Italians at the starting gate is completed with Elena Curtoni, number 21, Marta Bassino who also returns it plunges into this specialty (thinking also of the combined Sunday, although combined with the super-g in that case) with bib 28 and Nadia Delago (35) hunting for some other punticino.
With the high numbers, a weight result could be played Nina Ortlieb, with the 23, and Kajsa Vickhoff Lie with the 29, attention also to the presence of Petra Vlhova with the 31, very positive in the contest disputed and therefore convinced to compete also tomorrow and not only in the combined on Sunday, where he will be among the big favorites considering also the absence of Mikaela Shiffrin.
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FEMALE DESCENT - VAL D''ISERE
Startlist: 1 Rebensburg, 2 Haehlen, 3 Stuhec, 4 Brignone, 5 Venier, 6 Puchner, 7 Suter C., 8 Marsaglia, 9 Schmidhofer, 10 Tippler, 11 Delago Nicol, 12 Gisin, 13 Siebenhofer, 14 Weirather, 15 Weidle, 16 Gut-Behrami, 17 Goggia, 18 McKennis, 19 Ledecka, 20 Miradoli, 21 Curtoni E., 28 Bassino, 35 Delago Nadia.
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