Vlhova and Brignone will open the parallel of Lech / Zuers: many absences, but there are 100 points that will weigh ...

Thursday (qualification at 10.00 am, final phase at 5.45 pm) the only specialty appointment with the women immediately protagonists. Eight blue in the race (Peterlini renounces due to back pain) for the return to the CdM of the Vorarlberg town where Tomba wrote the story.

Wednesday 25 November 2020 5 minutes reading time

One hundred points up for grabs that could weigh in a World Cup race that sees Petra Vlhova already attempting a first mini escape. The fourth round of the season for the women's circuit, fresh from Levi's double slalom with the Slovakian one-two, therefore provides the first and only parallel of this cup, very similar to the PGS seen last January 19th in Sestriere, the last test of this type in the maximum circuit. There will be no one who won that day on the “Kandahar G.A. Lambs "; the French Clara Direz, as well as several big names, above all Mikaela Shiffrin and Michelle Gisin who will prepare the super-g of Sankt Moritz, and obviously Anna Swenn-Larsson herself already stopped by Covid (others) in Levi. Two of the most anticipated women, Petra Vlhova and Federica Brignone, will open the contest on Thursday in Lech / Zuers (on Friday it will be the men 's turn), flanked by the first qualifying heat scheduled from 10.00 (live on Eurosport Player and Rai Sport). The final phase will start at 5.45 pm, under the spotlight of a Flexenarena that will bring the World Cup back to Vorarlberg, almost 26 years after that wonderful double scored in slalom by Alberto Tomba. You will compete on a 365 meter long slope, 102 in altitude from 1820 to 1718, with giant skis and distances between 16 and 20 meters per door. We remember the new regulation in force from this year: qualification phase that will see the athletes face a double run, but the direct clash does not count as much as the total amount of time obtained (in case of exit in one of the two heats, it is automatically deleted). The best 16, instead of 32 as up to last season, will enter the final phase scheduled at night. At that point we will start from the round of 16 and, up to and including the final, we will always compete on the double heat with track reversal and the usual calculation of the gap in case of exit in the first (half a second). Points traditionally awarded to the first 30 and "finalists" to establish the placements. CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE BOARD Eight blue in the race, among the 69 registered athletes, with the renunciation of Martina Peterlini who has to live with the disc protrusion that has already affected the thirty in Levi. Brignone, in fact, will be in the first run with Vlhova while Bassino in the second with the young Austrian Moerzinger, who was second in Sestriere. Soon we will also see Sofia Goggia, in the fourth match with Meta Hrovat, then Pirovano-Liensberger, Delago-Siebenhofer (comparison between sprinters), Hurt-Rossetti, Della Mea-Nufer and Melesi-Kopp. Also in the race Ester Ledecka and Alice Robinson, two "tipette" anything but to be underestimated ...

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