Alpine SkiingSt. Moritz 2017
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It '' was recently announced the new start list of free men's downhill valid for the World Championships in St. Moritz to take place tomorrow, from 13.30.
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The cancellation of today's competition due to the presence of fog forced the organizers at first to choose the new date of recovery and then to redo the 'process of assignment of starting numbers. The new start time that is about one and a half hours later than originally planned, has prompted big discipline to completely change the starting strategy opting for odd numbers are part of the first decade.
The first athlete to shoot from the starting gate will be the Swiss Carlo Janka Olympic champion that will be the "forerunner" to the other 55 members to the World Championship event. Bib number 2 for the Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis cool bronze champion in superg, number 3 for Adrien Theaux that compared to yesterday's decision will start 14 places ahead.
No. 4 Guillermo Fayed that will anticipate the descent of the first of three blue race Dominik Paris (5). The 'South Tyrolean after disappointing supergiant Wednesday is called redemption in his favorite dishes he who in his career has already won a world silver in free Schladming downhill in 2013.
Pectoral 6 for the first Austrian to take away that Vincent Kriechmayer that surprised everyone in the super-G world champion finishing in fifth position un''eccellente. After the white-red will be the turn of Peter Fill the second load of ninety that the Italian team will be played in this downhill. The blue veteran has come to Sankt Moritz with the red leader bib in the ranking of specialties and tomorrow in no uncertain terms will point to a place on the podium.
Two positions after Fill will be the turn of Kjetil Jansrud the number one favorite for the win. The Norwegian who chose the bib number 9 starting 10 positions ahead with its decision yesterday, will start immediately after the Slovenian Kline (8), and after the 'silver Wednesday will try to win also the first champion metal career downhill .
The first dozen is completed by the reigning world champion Patrik Kueng (10) in front of the home crowd will dearly before giving the field its world title. Number 11 for the 'American Travis Ganong, followed by compatriot Bennett (12) and by dangerous Beat Feuz (13) probably the' athlete who knows better than anyone else all the secrets of the track Corviglia St. Moritz.
Will start with 14 French veteran Johan Clarey that will be followed by an ever more discipline Hannes Reichelt (15) and German Andreas Sander (16) .Attenzione the bib 17 assigned to Erik Guay that discharge large pressures and especially galvanized by the splendid medal of 'gold supergiant, tomorrow could again to break the bank, he does not forget he has already won a world title in the downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011.
Completing the top 20 Austrian Max Franz (18) winner of the freedom of the Val Gardena and Matthias Mayer (19) Olympic champion in this event, which will precede the young Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (20) quest''anno unconvincing downhill World Cup, but in the Scandinavian superg Wednesday seemed very at ease on the track at St. Moritz and the fourth place just 3 cents from the bronze medal tomorrow could give him an additional charge to capture its first metal in a great appointment .
Among the other athletes to take into strong consideration are: French Brice Roger (21), the Slovenian Klemen Kosi (22), the third and last Italian in the race Mattia Casse (26) and Switzerland's Mauro Caviezel (29).
As previously mentioned, the downhill world championship will start at 13.30 tomorrow.
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