Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The reactions of the Italian house after the inaugural giant in Soelden. The vice world champion, eighth, has put aside his ailments and Ricky and Simon are smiling too.
Sunday 24 October 2021 3 minutes reading time
A decent Italy, with its forward always there in front of it and the conviction that this could really be the right season for the first podium in the World Cup, after the silver in Cortina.
A giant national team comes out of Rettenbach with some smiles, knowing that the best will come from December onwards. Luca De Aliprandini took his fourth top ten in Soelden, and this was the real goal of the opening for the Trentino, eighth after having had a complicated summer-autumn preparation. "My goal is always to stay in the podium area, for today I talked about the top 5, but certainly for how the last two weeks between the pain in the back and the leg have gone, I knew I was not 100% - explains De Aliprandini a physi.org - I finished eighth, looking at the gap not too far and to start the season that's okay.
There are at least ten athletes who can play for the victory and the podium at each race ”.
Twenty-sixth Riccardo Tonetti, qualified for just one cent: “I'm certainly more satisfied with the first heat, happy to have also had a bit of luck on my side with the pass for the second. I wanted to compete in this heat given how the first one went, this time I managed to make a good wall by paying a bit 'in the background compared to Maurberger and others ”.
And Simon Maurberger himself smiles, for a special 20th place on the day of the return to the giant, where he had not competed since that 15th in Garmisch (end of January 2020), a few days before breaking the crusader in Chamonix. “In this second heat I did some really good tracks, especially from the middle of the wall onwards, maybe I could dare something higher but that's okay.
To be the first it's ok, now we try to improve from race to race ”.
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