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Saturday on the Rettenbach (at 10.00 the 1st heat, at 13.15 the 2nd) the first race of the 2021/22 World Cup: bib n ° 1 for the American, Goggia will have the 9th, unlucky Robinson with the 15. Blue eight at the starting gate.
Friday 22 October 2021 8 minutes reading time
Shiffrin, Brignone, Bassino. Really not bad to start a new season of great skiing, with Soelden looking forward to the first female giant of a World Cup that promises to be beautiful and really open.
The evening bib extraction assigned the opening to the American champion, on the track designed by his technician Mike Day (start at 10.00, the 2nd heat is scheduled at 13.15 on French track, both tests live obviously on Rai Sport-Eurosport 1). The snow did not seem very hard today during the inspection with the classic skiing on the track, but there should not be any particular problems also because the weather promises to be decidedly favorable for the whole weekend.
Rettenbach thrills, therefore, with the first two blue strikers who have respectively fished the n ° 2 and the 3: Faith before Marta, dreaming of the double as in 2020, when it was the Cuneo who beat the Aosta Valley.
Both have already won in Soelden, considering that Brignone has already succeeded in 2015, as well as Mikaela Shiffrin who won only once in the opening (2014, among other things ex aequo with Anna Fenninger). Six of them have already rejoiced in the Oetztal, with Lara Gut-Behrami triumphant in 2013 and 2016: the Ticino-born had a good number 4 and wants to go back to winning even in a CdM giant, after the world champion Cortina, just five years after that day in Soelden when he dominated in front of Shiffrin and Bassino.
Tessa Worley, who won on Rettenbach in 2018 (on Brignone), will start sixth, between Michelle Gisin (5) and Petra Vlhova (7). The Swiss will eventually be there, after having been in doubt until the eve considering the really reduced preparation after contracting Pfeiffer's glandular fever in July, while the holder of the absolute crystal ball will be at the first outing with Mauro Pini at his side, after winning the "coppone" with Livio Magoni. And the technician from Bergamo will observe it closely, thinking that his new student, Meta Hrovat, will start immediately after with bib n ° 8.
The draw for the sixth and penultimate winner on the Rettenbach did not go too well, Alice Robinson who bent Shiffrin in 2019 and, among other things, is the last to take a cup giant, at the last Lenzerheide finals . Number 15 for the New Zealander, while Sofia Goggia will have a nice 9 to try to do even better than last year's 6th place. The appointment of Italian standard-bearer at the next Beijing Olympics will be an extra boost for the Bergamo-based player who worked a lot in the summer between the wide gates.
In the second sub-group, there is also Siebenhofer with 10, then the possible surprise Nina O''Brien (11), followed by Hector, Gasienica-Daniel and Liensberger, who will try to repeat the magic of Cortina.
Immediately out of 15 the fourth blue at the start, Elena Curtoni (16) who aims to repeat the excellent last season in the discipline; It will be necessary to pay attention to the trio Brunner-Mowinckel-Holtmann from 17 to 19, but also to the one formed by Gritsch, Moltzan and the returning Clara Direz, behind the starting gate with numbers from 26 to 28.
Bib number 31 for Ester Ledecka (first points in a CdM giant for her in Soelden 2020), the other four Italians registered, recalling the absence of Laura Pirovano (such as those of Wendy Holdener and Corinne Suter, who will however return shortly unlike the thirty), will start after 45. Number 46 for Karoline Pichler (just before Zrinka Ljutic, the 2004 class that generates a lot of curiosity), 49 for Roberta Midali, 52 for Roberta Melesi and 68 for Ilaria Ghisalberti, on her second adventure in the cup after his debut on Rettenbach, 12 months ago.
75 starters, with the Chinese Yueming Ni to close, preceded by a couple of numbers by the eternal Sarah Schleper, who will finally be able to enjoy the audience on the track.
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FEMALE GIANT - SOELDEN
Startlist 1st run: 1 Shiffrin, 2 Brignone, 3 Bassino, 4 Gut-Behrami, 5 Gisin, 6 Worley, 7 Vlhova, 8 Hrovat, 9 Goggia, 10 Siebenhofer, 11 O''Brien, 12 Hector, 13 Gasienica-Daniel , 14 Liensberger, 15 Robinson, 16 Curtoni, 46 Pichler, 49 Midali, 52 Melesi, 68 Ghisalberti.
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