Adrien Thaux wins the difficult descent of Santa Caterina, fourth Christof Innerhofer

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In Santa Caterina & egrave; staged one of the downhill World Cup pi & ugrave; always difficult on a track, the & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Deborah Compagnoni completely transformed than when & egrave; It hosted the World Cup in 2005.

Tuesday 29 December 2015 6 minutes reading time

Deservedly he won and detachment Adrien Th & eacute; aux, French & egrave; the state & rsquo; only one not to make mistakes on a track full of twists and incredibly pendant at the top but also ghiacciatissima and this became even more & ugrave; difficult than it already & agrave; would not be. For the 31 year old from Val Thorens & egrave; the third career win in the World Cup, all downhill, l & rsquo; s latest & rsquo; he obtained March 2, 2013 in Kvitfjell. Second place went to one of the favorites of the vigil, Hannes Reichelt, detached from Th & eacute; aux 1 & rdquo; 04. The great day French & egrave; completed by the third at 1 & rdquo; 15 by compatriot David Poisson, resounding risen from the limbo in which had crashed after bronze world of 2013, not coincidentally got on a & rsquo; other track super technique as the Planai Schladming and the last two years and means the & rsquo; only its result among the top ten & egrave; It was fifth place last February in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on a & rsquo; other track creepy, for French & egrave; the first podium in the World Cup, where he had two fourth places in Bormio on Dec. 29, 2009 and Kitzb & uuml; hel January 26, 2013, coincidentally two tracks Doc. Who should really biting your hands & egrave; for & ograve; Christof Innerhofer, l & rsquo; South Tyrol at the top was already & agrave; behind th & eacute; aux then & egrave; It was fantastic even in the final, winning was possible but not obvious, but all & egrave; It went up in smoke when you Inner & egrave; He stuck his head in the door after 45 seconds of the race, the curtain of the door & egrave; It was caught in the neck to the finish and even for most & ugrave; half a minute l & rsquo; blue Gais & egrave; dragged the pile of ripped that door until you & egrave; He managed to get rid of it. A considerable handicap that & egrave; definitely cost us the podium, since Inner & egrave; finished fourth at only 7 cents from Poisson, that with the number 25 he knocked out & ugrave; from the podium when it seemed almost certain. Fifth and sixth two Austrians, Romed Baumann and Vincent Kriechmayr seventh Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal that on a track that has proven not to like since the practice is for the first time won in the downhill this season but limits the damage and bypasses for the & rsquo ; once again topped the overall standings of the World Cup l & rsquo; Austrian Marcel Hirscher, even if for only 15 points. Eighth Canadian Benjamin Thomsen, another specialist of extreme slopes, ninth and tenth Frenchman Guillermo Fayed German Andreas Sander, for the first time among the top ten in career top ten that are missed for anything from Marc Gisin, brother of Dominique and Michelle, for the third time in eleventh career, had done it the other two times in Wengen. Many athletes have arrived literally destroyed the finish demonstrating the difficulty & agrave; the race today, as very few if they have seen, and of course many have made serious mistakes, all the Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud and l & rsquo; blue Dominik Paris, on which the final placings will update cos & Igrave; as on those of other blue. Unfortunate the Norwegian Aleksander Kilde Aamodt and another blue Peter Fill, both have lost a ski in the upper part because of the violent stresses to which they were subjected tools. The Men's World Cup back on January 6 still in Santa Caterina but for a slalom, which will recover & agrave; the deleted one in Zagreb due to lack of snow.

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