Finally Lake Louise! The startlist of the 1st round: Kilde returns, Paris leads the 9 blues

Tonight (8 pm Italian time) the season of speed for the jet men begins with training in view of the descents on Friday and Saturday: "Domme" with the n ° 11, Innerhofer will be right before it. Mayer opens, Feuz with 3, the Norwegian starts with 19 before Odermatt and we will also see Pinturault.

Tuesday 23 November 2021 6 minutes reading time

The usual, very long wait (which will be a little shorter next year, with the inclusion in the calendar of the "Speed Opening" on the Matterhorn), but the time has finally come for the World Cup speed races in Lake Louise, with the men to inaugurate a triptych which, for the first time, will be identical to the women's one of the following week (3-5 December). Double descent on the Canadian track, Friday and Saturday, then the super-g on Sunday to close; tonight (20.00 Italian time, 12 local time in the state of Alberta, same race time) the first of the three scheduled tests, two years after the last time in these parts, when Dominik Paris finished in second place in descent, just two cents from Thomas Dressen who will be the great absentee of this opening, still affected by knee problems. The blue champion will start with bib n ° 11 in this first training, with some changes in the weather that could create problems in a timed test opened by Matthias Mayer, bib n ° 1 with Beat Feuz, holder of that sphere for four years. specialty crystal which is the great dream and goal of “Domme”, at the start third before Baumann with 5 (Germany also recovers Ferstl). World champion Kriechmayr will have 7, Christof Innerhofer will be the first of Ghidoni's nine men at the starting gate with 10, just before Paris. Clarey and Bailet are the points of reference of an orphaned France of Theaux (out all season after the serious injury suffered at Copper Mountain): bibs n ° 13 and 14 for them, then Max Franz (who won the descent of Lake Louise in 2018) with the 15th and highly anticipated return of Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, in the pits from the crash to the crusader last January, which will take place starting with the 19th, shortly after captain Jansrud (16). Other important returns are those of Ryan Cochran-Siegle, immediately starting with 2 drawn from the even numbers, Steven Nyman with 23 and Adrian Smiseth Sejersted (33), at the start after Alexis Pinturault (n ° 32), who will test in descent before deciding whether to participate only in the super-g (as probable) and has already started his distance comparison with Marco Odermatt, tonight with the n ° 20. The other seven blues (with internal selection, given that the bibs for the two descents will be 7): the new father Matteo Marsaglia with bib 26, Lele Buzzi with 35, Mattia Casse, finally at the top physically in the season of the real return, with 37 before Tonetti (43), “Gugu” Bosca (50), Molteni (66) and Zazzi 70th of the 74 registered athletes. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MEN'S DESCENT - LAKE LOUISE Startlist 1st round: 1 Mayer, 2 Cochran-Siegle, 3 Feuz, 4 Allegre, 5 Baumann, 6 Bennett, 7 Kriechmayr, 8 Cater, 9 Striedinger, 10 Innerhofer, 11 Paris, 12 Ganong, 13 Clarey, 14 Bailet, 15 Franz, 16 Jansrud, 17 Sander, 18 Hemetsberger, 19 Kilde, 20 Odermatt, 26 Marsaglia, 35 Buzzi, 37 Casse, 43 Tonetti, 50 Bosca, 66 Molteni, 70 Zazzi.

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