The favorites for the super-g World Cup: Vincent Kriechmayr Dominik Paris's rival to the title defense?

Fourth appointment to analyze, discipline by discipline, the next season of the white circus with our "5 + 5".

Monday 14 October 2019 11 minutes reading time

As for the men's super-giant World Cup, the 2018/19 vintage duel between Dominik Paris, trophy holder, and Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr could recur. They are the two big favorites, with Kjetil Jansrud awaiting the great redemption in "his" specialty. Tuesday evening the fifth episode with the giant's women. "DOMME" FOR THE BIS 1.Dominik Paris: let's talk about the man who last year dominated taking both the world title and the crystal ball of specialty, the first of his career. Until a few months ago, "Domme" seemed ptonito to impose itself with continuity only in descent, but its exponential growth in every type of condition has changed things; in 2018/19 he won, in addition to the rainbow test of Are, on three tracks like Bormio, Kvitfjell and Soldeu, always combined with the descent. The key to confirm yourself on the throne? Have continuity since Lake Louise, a track among which it can easily start from a favorite also in super-g, given that the only other race in super-g won in career before the last, magical year, it had been in "his" Kitzbuehel. 2. Vincent Kriechmayr: he finished 2nd in the last season, 84 points behind Paris, practically the same gap as the previous year compared to Jansrud. With two consecutive squares of honor (and a continuous growth from 2015 onwards, except for the 2016/17 vintage), it is natural to consider it the first rival of the blue. Innate class and natural skiing, the 28-year-old from the Wunderteam has only won twice in his career in this specialty, but his continuity of performance and his ability to not fail even in big events is impressive, you see Are's double medal in speed when perhaps he lost the gold in super g ... 3.Kjetil Jansrud: with an Olympic title (2014) and three specialty crystal balls (2015, 2017 and 2018), the 34-year-old Norwegian is the real "Mr. Super-g â€remained active, considering the withdrawal of Svindal. He is back from his worst performance year in the World Cup fast races, at least since he is at the top of the white circus, but Kjetil still won the first race of last year at Lake Louise, only to lose himself a bit and conclude, however, in 4th place in the specialty ranking and only 8 points from Caviezel. If he returns to his usual performance, the one that allowed him to win 12 of his 22 Cup matches in super-g, he will start absolutely on par with Paris and Kriechmayr. 4.Aleksander Aamodt Kilde: with the return home Atomic, with which he won the super-g World Cup in the year of his explosion (2015/16), AAK intends to return there in front of what is his favorite specialty despite the number of victories in the maximum circuit remained at number 1, or at the pearl of February 2016 at Hinterstoder. Returned to success last December in Val Gardena, but downhill, the 27-year-old Norwegian arrived at the crossroads of his career and from him we expect much more than the 5th final place obtained in last year's specialty ranking, to 131 points of detachment from Dominik Paris. 5.Matthias Mayer: 6th in the specialty in 2018/19, the Carinthian has the potential and speed to win on every track, but lacks continuity within the same race, despite having already risen to the final podium of the Cup World of super-gs twice (2013 and 2015, before the injury in Val Gardena). He is the current Olympic champion, but in the maximum circuit he won only twice, in Saalbach in 2015 and in Kitzbuehel in 2017, but except for the 2015/16 season almost completely lost, he is constantly top five man .. to stay loose. THE OTHER PODIUM MEN The first name we indicate certainly cannot have the palmares of others, with only one complete World Cup season behind it, but the sensational progress shown by Marco Odermatt in giant, with double podium in the last two races of last season between the wide doors , leads us to think that the 22 year old Swiss can reach the top very quickly even in super-g, where last year he finished 8th in Bormio as the best finish, 12th in the world race of Are and 20th in the final classification of specialty with 72 active points. Christof Innerhofer seems to find greater confidence on the descent from at least a couple of seasons, but net of the expected return from the accident that still poses a question mark on short-medium term performance, the Alto Adige is to be considered a potential podium man if we think of the 2nd place obtained on the Saslong only a few months ago, at 5 cents from a huge Svindal, the 4th in the world championship of Are and the 10th in the final ranking of specialties, among other things conditioned by the start number due to positioning in the WCSL, improved in the season finale with the ascent to the 8th place. Finally, it cannot fail to be included among the eligible candidates Beat Feuz, although back from 12th place in the specialty last season and with a victory that in super-g is missing from the finals of Sankt Moritz 2016; his compatriot Mauro Caviezel has instead signed the best career season, with three podiums between the first two races (3rd in Lake Louise, 2nd in Beaver Creek) and the last of Soldeu, second again behind Paris , earned the 3rd place finish in the specialty. Another young man, even if we talk about a 25 year-old, ready to get on the podium could be Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, 13th with 173 points collected in 2018/19, and always able to finish from 7th to 9th place in the last six races of specialty (including the 8th at the World Championships), except for the release in Kvitfjell's super-g.

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