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The Austrian champion, one year after the Val d''Isère drama, will be at the start on Tuesday of the first downhill training on the track where she won 3 of her 4 World Cup races. The choices also of Switzerland (with Suter and without Gisin) and France, which finds Romane Miradoli.
Monday 29 November 2021 7 minutes reading time
After the more than halved weekend dedicated to men, in Lake Louise it is already time for the women's triptych of speed, for the opening of the specialists who will face the first two World Cup descents on Friday and Saturday, followed on Sunday by the super- g.
The first test is already on Tuesday, even if the weather in this case does not seem to be too favorable, for the stage of the many returns of important athletes. We think of Nicol Delago in Italy, but also of Nicole Schmidhofer who, less than 12 months after the terrible knee accident in Val d''Isère, seems to be ready for the first stage which, only until a couple of months ago , seemed far away for the super-g world champion in Sankt Moritz 2017.
In reality, Nicole will decide only after rehearsals whether or not to participate in the race on Friday and then the following ones, but there is confidence after being able to train fully with her teammates, in the two central weeks of November at Copper Mountain. . "I was able to readjust to speed very quickly - the words of the 32-year-old Carinthian, who in Lake Louise won three of her four races in CdM, all downhill between 2018 and 2019 - The effort at over 3000 meters d Altitude was the biggest challenge, I stopped for a couple of days to manage, but I feel my knee hasn't shown any negative reactions.
Also, I have wonderful memories here, but the test days will be real training sessions and we will decide only on Thursday ”.
Returns that will also be in the Swiss and French teams: as regards the Swiss, as I know without Michelle Gisin, who returned to Europe after Killington to prepare the super-g of Sankt Moritz, still having very little training in speed, among the 7 athletes chosen Corinne Suter, who jumped Soelden and the same giant from Killington after the bad fall remedied in training a couple of months ago, highly anticipated like Lara Gut-Behrami, the other tip of a red-cross team who will also count on Priska Nufer , Jasmine Flury, Stephanie Jenal, Joana Haehlen and Noemie Kolly.
Thirteen Swiss-Ski men will instead participate in the Beaver Creek races, with selection after the only test on Wednesday, with a view to descents on Saturday and Sunday, and choices to be made also for the super-g on Thursday and Friday: lead the team Beat Feuz and Marco Odermatt, already 3rd and 4th in the Lake Louise descent, are Urs Kryenbuehl and Ralph Weber, who had missed the Canadian stage for their choice not to get vaccinated. Niels Hintermann, Stefan Rogentin, Lars Roesti, Nils Mani, Gillers Roulin, Thomas Tumler, Gino Caviezel, Justin Murisier and Loic Meillard complete the team, with the latter aiming for the first two races on the “Birds of Prey”.
France will bring four women to Lake Louise, where we will not see Tessa Worley, but there will also be the return after almost a year of Romane Miradoli, who broke the crusader in the second giant of Courchevel (14 December 2020), and that's the real point reference of a training reduced to a minimum, with the goal of points for Tiffany Gauthier, Laura Gauche and Camille Cerutti.
Eleven instead the transalpine men for Beaver Creek: Alexis Pinturault will start with the super-g and then decide whether to take part also in the two descents as in Canada, here is Mathieu Faivre who will compete on Thursday and Friday, while the headlights for Saturday and Sunday will be Johan Clarey and Matthieu Bailet, with Nils Alphand, Maxence Muzaton, Nils Allegre, Blaise Giezendanner, Victor Schuller (return to CdM after Saalbach's injury), Roy Piccard and Nicolas Raffort.
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