Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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First round of the Alta Badia giant: the Frenchman commands with 2 cents on the cup leader and 19 on the Austrian, then there is a fantastic Radamus and the blue leader, just over half a second, with Zubcic, Kristoffersen and Pinturault ... furious. The second is scheduled at 13.30.
Sunday 19 December 2021 4 minutes reading time
A first run from ... Gran Risa, a great show in perfect condition, on the giant's temple track.
Mathieu Faivre and Marco Odermatt are practically perfect and make a void on everyone, or almost everyone, but the blue dream of returning to the podium 5 years after the last time (3rd place by Florian Eisath) is more alive than ever thanks to Luca De Aliprandini, who will play another great chance at 13.30 after the 4th place in Val d''Isère.
The world champion is therefore ahead, he who in Alta Badia was second in 2016 beaten only by super Hirscher, but there are only 2 hundredths of a margin on the great favorite, Marco Odermatt, who controls the wall and for the rest he does ... fear. And in the third partial place there is Manuel Feller, amazing in the final stretch on the cat's humps, where he recovers over 3 tenths to close at just 19 cents from Faivre, with an equally spatial River Radamus who "turns" fourth at 30 cents, inserting the number 18.
De Aliprandini, therefore, is fifth at 53 cents from Faivre, paying over 4 tenths in the first 18 seconds of the heats, to then go wild and stage a very good performance. Filip Zubcic is just a hundredth behind the Trentino, Kristoffersen (first exceptional stretch, then a couple of scratches too many on the central wall) finds a good level and is 7th at + 0 "57, while Alexis Pinturault was unable to interpret at the track is better starting with the '1 and pays 67 cents, preceded also by Justin Murisier, in eighth place (+ 0 ”61).
If Gino Caviezel completes the top ten of the first heat at just 71 cents, they are all close behind the Swiss (with an exceptional track preparation, like every year), from Kranjec to Meillard which partially disappoint.
The other blues who have gone down so far: Giovanni Borsotti gets on the last door and is out, after a tight qualifying test, while Riccardo Tonetti should
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Giant slalom Male Alta Badia (ITA)
KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik
ODERMATT Marco
FELLER Manuel
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