A super-g full of blue: the startlist of Sunday's race, Goggia with 5 then Brignone and Curtoni

In Val d''Isère the speed weekend ends with the second challenge at Oreiller-Killy (start at 11.00): Sofia opts for a low number, Fede will have 7, Elena 11 before Mikaela Shiffrin (15), the great rival in the absence of Lara Gut-Behrami. Nine Italian women at the starting gate, Francesca Marsaglia will open the race.

Saturday 18 December 2021 6 minutes reading time

A super-g with a lot of blue before, during and ... in the queue. The startlist of the fourth specialty seasonal event proposes, for the second race on the "OK" of Val d''Isère, the Italjet girls as the reference point of a challenge that will begin at 11.00 on Sunday, with live TV on Eurosport 1 and Rai Sport; Swiss tracking right on the day in which there will be no one who would have been the main favorite, Lara Gut-Behrami hit in the past few hours by Covid. A very heavy absence but not the only one, since we will not even see the one who won the super-g here in Savoy 12 months ago, Ester Ledecka (currently engaged in the Italian stages of the CdM of snowboard, between Carezza and Cortina ), Petra Vlhova and the duo who did very well in Sankt Moritz, formed by Wendy Holdener and Alice Robinson, already directed towards the giants of Courchevel. And then the blue will have to make the most of it, with Francesca Marsaglia bib number 1 obliged and once again anything but ideal; Tippler and Raedler will be other good references, then here with the 5 Sofia Goggia to look for the fifth of the season, she already red bib even in super-g and who made a courageous choice with such a low number, after Federica Brignone (7) , who in this race was third 12 months ago, and Corinne Suter (9) had already opted for the most coveted numbers. After the technical break, here is Elena Curtoni's assault (n ° 11) on her first career victory in a World Cup super-g: the Valtellina has all the possibilities, as well as she can do very well and bring the podium area (as in 2020 on OK) Marta Bassino, who will start with 13 just before Mikaela Shiffrin. Bib number 15 for the Colorado champion, who decided to be there only mid-week after the double podium in Sankt Moritz, and is certainly the first great rival of the blue block. Not to underestimate the growth of Breezy Johnson, who will start immediately after the compatriot, also in this specialty, then Gagnon for the redemption and Mowinckel with 19 to finally return to that podium already cherished in the Engadine. And after Michelle Gisin with 20, again Italy with Nicol Delago, who today fell without consequences in the descent, who will start for 23rd, Roberta Melesi who must use a good bib (29), Karoline Pichler (38) to get other heavy points after those of Sankt Moritz, and Nadia Delago (41) who now wants to raise the tone also in super-g. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST SUPER-G FEMALE - VAL D''ISERE Startlist: 1 Marsaglia, 2 Flury, 3 Tippler, 4 Raedler, 5 Goggia, 6 Scheyer, 7 Brignone, 8 Gauthier, 9 C. Suter, 10 Miradoli, 11 Curtoni, 12 Puchner, 13 Bassino, 14 Nufer, 15 Shiffrin, 16 Johnson, 17 Gagnon, 18 Siebenhofer, 19 Mowinckel, 20 Gisin, 23 Nicol Delago, 29 Melesi, 38 Pichler, 41 Nadia Delago.

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