Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The startlist of the first heat of the fourth specialty round of the season, the second in Alta Badia: the two Norges with bibs 3 and 4, De Aliprandini fishes on the 13th and Della Vite, who climbed back into the WCSL, will be the second of the eight Azzurri (out of Franzoni and Tonetti, Zingerle returns) to the gate.
Sunday 18 December 2022 5 minutes reading time
Time for a giant encore in Alta Badia, for a Gran Risa which, just like 12 months ago, will give an encore on Monday, 24 hours after today's Norge triumph.
The favorite for the challenge scheduled at 10.00 (1st heat, based on Slovenian design) and tomorrow at 1.30pm (with the 2nd heat which will have US markings), will be for all or almost all, however, that impressive Marco Odermatt seen this'' today after an unusually first run, even if the Swiss would have all the justifications in the world having devoted almost the whole week to speed in Val Gardena, below expectations.
The World Cup leader will start with number 2, anticipated by Zan Kranjec who did the exact opposite in race-1: amazing in the first heat, a semi-disaster on the steps of the second to drop from 1st to 5th place.
With bibs 3 and 4, here are Kristoffersen and Braathen today authors of the Norwegian double, with "Pinheiro" in front of the more experienced teammate for 2 cents. Objectively, these four seem to have an edge over all the others on a technical track like the Gran Risa, even if Alexis Pinturault, who will wear bib number 5 on Monday, finished in good fourth today.
Meillard and Feller (who has some back problems) will close the first sub-group, then with number 9 attention to McGrath, who entered the second sub-group in place of Zubcic, while Luca De Aliprandini has chosen number 13 and, beyond the Negative performance today, the hope for the Trentino rider is that the snowpack doesn't give in as it did on the occasion of the first giant, otherwise the disadvantage on the track could already be significant.
The second blue awaited at the start will be Pippo Della Vite, with number 26 after gaining other positions in the WCSL thanks to today's 17th place, then in the thirty we will see Borsotti and Maurberger, while for the last four standard bearers of the national team, who will not count on Franzoni (Beaver Creek's injury made itself felt, today he closed the first heat at 6"50) and Tonetti, we will have to wait until Vinatzer's 58th, Zingerle's 60th (the change compared to race-1), the 61 of Sala and 64, out of the 66 registered athletes, of Tobias Kastlunger.
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MALE GIANT – ALTA BADIA
Startlist 1st heat: 1 Kranjec, 2 Odermatt, 3 Kristoffersen, 4 Braathen, 5 Pinturault, 6 Meillard, 7 Feller, 8 Brennsteiner, 9 McGrath, 10 A. Schmid, 11 Murisier, 12 Schwarz, 13 De Aliprandini, 14 Faivre, 15 G. Caviezel, 26 Della Vite, 28 Borsotti, 30 Maurberger, 58 Vinatzer, 60 Zingerle, 61 Sala, 64 Kastlunger.
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Giant slalom Male Alta Badia (ITA)
ODERMATT Marco
KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik
KRANJEC Zan
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