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Kjetil Jansrud confirms the man more fit in the speed disciplines. After the victory in the Super-G yesterday, the Norwegian is in fact repeated in today's downhill, ahead of Peter Fill and Aksel Lund Svindal.
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Party third, Jansrud contest a race with only one barb to compression, pass that in the past was the main difficulty of the Oreiller-Killy, but today did not prevent the Norwegian preserve the advantage gained in the first part of all opponents. For him this is the victory number 16 of the World Cup, the number 7 in the Downhill, the number 17 in total if it includes Olympic gold in Sochi won two and half years ago.
After the third place in Paris yesterday, Italy can celebrate another podium. Peter Fill fact even close to victory, proving to be the fastest of all the stretches of smoothness, but losing too much in the long corners that characterize the central part of this track. For Fill, however, comes a magnificent second place just 26 hundredths of detachment, extremely encouraging result in the discipline in which to defend the cup specialty. For the 34 year old Castelrotto is number 9 of the podium in downhill in his career, the number 15 ever in World Cup
A podium similar to that of yesterday's Super G is completed by Aksel Lund Svindal, fully recuperated from a serious injury suffered on the Streif in January. How to Fill, Svindal lost too Jansrud in the middle, unable to recover sufficiently in the final and having to settle so the podium number 68 of the World Cup, the number 24 in the supreme discipline of Alpine skiing.
Fourth is Bostjan Kline, boy now ready to enter the final in the elite men's speed. The Slovenian was even ahead of Jansrud half before committing an error from which it did very well to save himself, but that he was unable to fight for a place in the top three. Fifth the best of French, Adrien Theaux, sixth Canadian Erik Guay, tied for seventh in the world champion Patrick Küng and Dominik Paris, ninth and tenth Aleksander Aamodt Kilde a tie Carlo Janka and Valentin Giraud-Moine. Debacle at home Austria: the best is Matthias Mayer, even seventeenth.
As for the Italians, Dominik Paris unable to repeat yesterday's performance, paying too much in the middle of the track and ending as said seventh. Further back Christof Innerhofer, sixteenth, and have yet to get off Emanuele Buzzi, Mattia Casse, Paolo Pangrazzi, Werner Heel and Henri Battilani, of which we will give you the result as soon as available.
As for the general classification of the World Cup with 100 points today Jansrud grabs summit Marcel Hirscher, who was absent today. The two are at an altitude of 200, Svindal was third at 140, while Peter Fill became the best of Italian climbing to fifth place, behind Alexis Pinturault.
DOWN MEN VAL D'ISERE - FINAL STANDINGS 1. Kjetil Jansrud (NOR) 1: 59.51 2. FILL Peter (ITA) +0.26 3. Akesl Lund Svindal (NOR) +0.33 4. KLINE Bostjan (SLO) +0.64 5. Theaux Adrien (FRA) +0.81
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Tomorrow the three days of Val d'Isere will end with a giant slalom; first heat set at 10, second at 13.
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