Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Tenth and final appointment to analyze, discipline by discipline, the next season of the white circus with our "5 + 5".
Tuesday 22 October 2019 13 minutes reading time
Three combined, with a new formula that foresees the downhill skier able to sign the fastest time in the quick test, starting first in the slalom race to rebalance the fight with technical skiers, and only two parallel giants, without a city event after the cancellation of what should have been disputed in Stockholm.
This is the menu of five races that could be important in the fight for the men's World Cup: the re-launch of the combined will pass through the races in Bormio (super-g plus slalom), Wengen (shortened descent on the Lauberhorn and slalom on the Jungfrau ) and Hinterstoder (again super-g plus slalom), while the parallels will be staged with the now classic appointment on the Gran Risa finale in Alta Badia, and at the beginning of February with the Chamonix novelty.
On paper, Alexis Pinturault should gain some points on the direct rivals for the absolute crystal ball, considering the completeness of the French also in these two specialties.
COMBINED - PINTURAULT THE REFERENCE WAITING FOR SCHWARZ ...
1. Alexis Pinturault: with the withdrawal of Hirscher, world champion and Olympic specialty despite never having won in the World Cup, he will always be the net favorite of the three combined in the program, all the more so with the combination that provides super -g in which the transalpine is able to quietly place himself in the top ten.
He is world champion in charge, having also won the five-circle silver at PyeongChang, but above all he has dominated in the (few) Cup races held in the last 5-6 years; he won 8 times, winning three crystal balls (2016-17-19) and on two other occasions he won the unofficial (without cup assignment) specialty rankings, in 2013 and 2014.
2.Marco Schwarz: last January in Wengen he won the first combined career, losing the chance to play the cup with Pinturault in Bansko, when the landing from the last jump in the morning super-g also cost him the crusader of the left knee. It will be necessary to understand, after having decided to skip Soelden, at which level he will return and if he is ready for Bormio at the end of December, a stage that the Carinthian has still questioned since he has not yet trained at speed. If he is 100%, he has every chance of countering Pinturault, having also won the world bronze medal in Are and fourth place at the PyeongChang Games.
3. Stephen Hadalin: at 24, he seems ready to play his major cards in this specialty. If between slalom and giant the Slovenian has already shown good things, in the combined (especially those combined with the super-g) is competitive at the highest levels. Ok, an unexpected silver arrived at the Are World Championship thanks to the 30th place downhill which allowed him to start first in slalom and take advantage of a perfect track, but two weeks later he was confirmed in Bansko, winning with 3rd place (behind two sacred monsters like Pinturault and Hirscher) his first podium in the World Cup. And let's not forget that this boy, in combination, won gold and silver in two consecutive editions of the junior world championships ...
4.Dominik Paris: do you remember the post-race world championship race of Are? "Domme" was furious about the track conditions he found himself in the slalom, without the possibility of fighting for a medal he had built with the fastest downhill time.
Well, with the new regulation all this should disappear for the sprinters, since the best in the fast race (downhill or super-g) will start first in the slalom; Paris, especially on the milder slopes (see Bormio), is able to gamble on it, as demonstrated in Chamonix 2016 when only Pinturault passed it, on the day of his first and only podium in the Cup in this specialty. The champion of super-g then alternated excellent tests (4th at the World Championship in Sankt Moritz) with many exits, but with the new course of combined attention to the Colossus of Val d'Ultimo ...
5. Victor Muffat Jeandet: certainly not a veteran of his best career, but the 30-year-old from Aix-les-Bains represents a combined guarantee, all the more so with the super-g combined with the slalom.
Olympic bronze medal at the 2018 Games, the transalpine won only one race in the World Cup and precisely in this discipline, in January 2018 in Wengen, with three more podiums in game bag.
PARALLEL - ALL OPENED WITH DOUBLE PGS
1.Aleksander Aamodt Kilde: let's start from a premise, that is that the precedents in the city events of this discipline count for little for the fight towards the specialty Cup that will be assigned for the first time. Only two parallel giants will be played and we are talking about another world compared to the parallel slalom, as shown by the results of recent years in Alta Badia. Right on the bumps of the Gran Risa cat, AAK has collected a 4th and a 7th place in the last two editions, showing however a terrifying potential when the jerseys widen and the Norwegian can express his great power. We play it in pole position, with all the unknowns involved.
2. Matts Olsson: he had revealed retirement intentions at age 30, but the Swedish gigantist has chosen to continue and certainly proposes himself as one of the most anticipated men in the two parallel giants expected. In fact, he won on the Gran Risa (his only success in the World Cup) in 2017, bending Hirscher in the semifinals and Kristoffersen in the final, to then suffer the Austrian revenge last year, finishing at the end of the fourth. It seems to be tailored to the cat's humps, in Chamonix it will be necessary to understand how it will be able to adapt.
3. Alexis Pinturault: his technique and the overall quality of the athlete have always emerged even in parallel, so much so that the first hurra of Alexis in the World Cup, over 7 years ago, arrived right in the city event of Moscow (February 2012 ).
He got three more podiums, but looking at the parallel giant of Alta Badia, the only useful reference in perspective for the 2019/2020 season, he has always done quite well with a fifth, two ninth places and finally the third place grabbed in the 2018 edition of the parallel at night on the Gran Risa. If the board and the related matches are fundamental in this specialty, on the card it can earn something on direct rivals.
4. Marco Odermatt: in the case of the phenomenal Swiss class '97, the precedents in parallel are few and relatively important, if we think that in Alta Badia a 31st and a 24th place arrived, in the 2016 and 2018 editions. do very well in the two parallel giant giants, we play the classic joker on him.
5.Ramon Zenhaeusern: if we talked about city events and then parallel slalom, there would be no doubt that the big favorite would be the Swiss. With the suppression of Stockholm and the suppression of the New Year's race in Oslo, however, everything changes and the two victories in the Cup (both in the Swedish race) of the Buerchen pontoon will count relatively, since the good Ramon has never competed in Alta Badia and even less in Chamonix), not having the scores to do so. The creation of a WCSL dedicated to the parallel has also solved this problem.
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