Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The only blue from Bergamo to save himself in the two days at home on the Gran Risa. His impressions after the second best result of his career, while worrying about the right knee sprain of the Val Gardena, knocked out in the first heat: the 3Tre will be running in three days.
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Many more shadows than lights, even if there is a young man (finally) who really gives us hope for something important in the medium to long term.
Italy's budget in the two giants in Alta Badia is in deficit, there is little to go around it: four points finishes, always far from the top ten, another exit for Luca De Aliprandini now down to 13th place of the WCSL, with the "boundary" of the second group really close (for 5 points the Trentino rider did not leave the fifteen, as happened instead to the world champion Mathieu Faivre).
The only happy note is called Filippo Della Vite, again the best even in the second consecutive appointment on the Gran Risa: 13th place (after the disqualification of Steen Olsen), second best finish in the cup for the 2001 class from Bergamo, already 12th ° in Val d'Isère. "Another good race - the words of the vice world champion jr of giant to fisi.org - I was the author of a solid second heat, I made important points to start better in Adelboden (he's still 28th in the WCSL, but really close to the top 20, ed), with the hope of immediately doing a good first heat, to stay closer to the best.
Today was a struggle, four heats on this track in two days is tough".
Some points also for Giovanni Borsotti, but much more than the 23rd place finish was expected, starting among other things fourth in the decisive heat: “I can't say it was a positive race, I was in a position where I could have a good second heat - the analysis of the Piedmontese - I was too busy and evidently I was riding a bit too much uphill, I wasn't fast.
Apart from Della Vite it's not an easy time for our team, we're struggling to find continuity and morale, the Gran Risa of recent years as a type of snow doesn't allow great recoveries for those who start from behind".
As if that weren't enough, there was a slalom problem on Thursday in Madonna di Campiglio: the best blue card for 3Tre, Alex Vinatzer, is at great risk given what happened in the first heat. That forklift after a few doors, with twisting of the right knee, cost a sprain to the joint that the medical staff is evaluating to understand the extent of the problem, but three days before the great challenge on the Canalone Miramonti, it is ''Worst possible approach for the 23-year-old from Val Gardena who had decided to play against these two giants in Badia after the excellent results (with podium) in the European Cup.
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ODERMATT Marco
KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik
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