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The US Alpine skiing never cease to amaze both among men than among women: Steven Nyman in Val Gardena has triumphed for the third time on the Saslong, today & egrave; Travis Ganong was the turn of the men's World Cup downhill in Santa Caterina.
Sunday 28 December 2014 4 minutes reading time
The upper part of the track & ldquo; & rdquo ;, Deborah Compagnoni the pi & ugrave; Technical, & egrave; been cut because of the wind favoring the skaters who know & ograve; do well the curves, of which this slope & egrave; however rich even without the top. Ganong, with the hash place at the start of the women's downhill, he guessed the perfect race or most especially at the end, taking home the first successful career in the World Cup, he boasted that as only the third podium place of last 28 February in the descent of Kvitfjell. In second and third place respectively at 9 and 21 cents from the US there are two guys who have undoubtedly benefited from the cut of the top who did not like: l & rsquo; Austrian Matthias Mayer, clearly the best at the top on the second podium of the season after square d & rsquo; honor in the super-G in Lake Louise, and l & rsquo; blue Dominik Paris.
L & rsquo; Tyrolean strangely lost pi & ugrave; a tenth in the final part sliding by Ganong but has a continuity & agrave; Seasonal impressive results: in seven fast races has put together a second, three third, two fourth and fifth place, & egrave; always third in the overall standings of the World Cup while in that specialty & agrave; bypasses Nyman, today thirteenth, and lengths of 25 & egrave; according to 76 points by Kjetil Jansrud. The Norwegian picketed the first race of the season and finished fifteenth: you break his streak of six consecutive podiums in speed & agrave; but in general leads with 50 points on & rsquo; Austrian Marcel Hirscher and 221 of Paris.
As for today's race, fourth and best result in downhill for supergigantista Austrian Otmar Striedinger, fifth and sixth two other Austrians (there are four in the first six to face the crisis of Wunderteam downhill!), Romed Baumann, never cos & Igrave ; good downhill for almost three years now, and Hannes Reichelt. Seventh German son d & rsquo; art Josef Ferstl, the best result before today was ninth February 23, 2013 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, eighth the best of French, Johan Clarey, ninth, tenth, twelfth and fourteenth four Swiss , in & rsquo; order Didier D & eacute; phage, Ralph Weber (first top ten result for him with the number 34), Sandro Viletta and Carlo Janka.
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