In Bansko the first of two giants: De Aliprandini catches the n ° 14 and now wants the first podium in the cup

Saturday (at 10 and 13 the two heats) the two Bulgarian days will start: Odermatt will start first to try to recover on Pinturault (bib 3). The complete startlist.

Friday 26 February 2021 5 minutes reading time

Time for Bansko, for the return of the men's World Cup in the Bulgarian location that hosted the men for the last time in 2019, but also last year it was the protagonist of the maximum circuit with three women's races. On the “Banderiza” here is the seventh and eighth seasonal giant, between Saturday and Sunday; it starts tomorrow (at 10 the first heat, at 13 the second, tracing respectively of the Croatian and Swiss house), with Marco Odermatt to open the first race with bib number 1 and the goal of canceling a World Cup without medals, but above all still fighting for the specialty cup which sees Alexis Pinturault preceding him by 40 points, as well as 225 in the general classification which seems to be in the hands of the Frenchman. Alexis himself came out disappointed (partially) by Cortina, without that giant gold that everyone was predicting: the champion of Courchevel will start with number 3 in the giant on Saturday, after his compatriot and new world champion Mathieu Faivre, just before instead of the one who won the last giant played in Bansko 24 months ago, namely Henrik Kristoffersen. For the Norwegian, everything has really changed since those days (he had just graduated from the wide gates in Are beating Hirscher and Pinturault himself), with his performance in giant at historic lows. We'll see if he can start again like Zan Kranjec, while Loic Meillard, at the start with the 6, and Filip Zubcic with the 7. In the second sub-group here is Luca De Aliprandini, not exactly lucky with the draw: after the silver world championship, the Trentino-based player is chasing the first podium in the World Cup and will do so starting with the No. 14, after Schmid (dangerous with the 8) and Schwarz himself (13), at the first podium in the discipline in Cortina . Eight blues in the race: the second at the starting gate will be Riccardo Tonetti with n ° 21, followed by Giovanni Borsotti (22), disappointed by the world championship event, then here is the return to the giant of Manni Moelgg, who competed in the season only in Soelden and tomorrow he will have to "make do" starting with the 33, just before Nani (back after back pain, n ° 35), Hofer (37), Zingerle (41) and the new attempt to look for his first points for Filippo Della Vite, who will start with bib number 44. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MALE GIANT - BANSKO Startlist 1st run: 1 Odermatt, 2 Faivre, 3 Pinturault, 4 Kristoffersen, 5 Kranjec, 6 Meillard, 7 Zubcic, 8 A. Schmid, 9 Nestvold-Haugen, 10 Muffat-Jeandet, 11 Leitinger, 12 G. Caviezel, 13 Schwarz, 14 De Aliprandini, 15 Murisier, 21 Tonetti, 22 Borsotti, 33 Moelgg, 35 Nani, 37 Hofer, 41 Zingerle, 44 Della Vite.

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