Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Twenty-second and twelfth in Santa Caterina Valfurva, the Norwegian will be played in the three Italian matches, from Sunday to Tuesday, key points for the cup.
Wednesday 16 December 2020 4 minutes reading time
He is preparing the great ransom in “his” Reiteralm, after coming out with the bones broken by the two giants disputed in Santa Caterina Valfurva. The misery of 31 points collected in two races that could have launched him at the top of the overall standings of the World Cup, after having obtained the podium (so far the only season) in the parallel giant of Lech / Zuers.
Henrik Ktistoffersen, in training all week in the Styrian town, will play a lot in the three Italian matches, all staged within 60 hours or less, scheduled between Alta Badia and Campiglio. First the giant and the slalom on the Gran Risa, Sunday and Monday, then “his” 3Tre, with the thirty night having already seen him triumph twice, in 2015 and 2016 beating Marcel Hirscher.
His eternal rival had always denied him the joy of victory in the giant par excellence, the one on the Gran Risa: last year, for the first time without the Salzburg ace at his feet, HK94 beat everyone in Alta Badia and, in a few days, he will go hunting for that encore which would also break a negative streak.
The 26-year-old Norwegian champion, in fact, does not get on the podium from three consecutive giants in CdM: to find a worse streak or even just comparable, for the one who is the reigning world champion in the specialty, you have to go back to the 2016/17 season, when Kristoffersen did not finish in the top 3 in the last five giants of that year, or rather from Alta Badia to the Aspen finals. To get closer to two negative giant results like those of ten days ago on Deborah Compagnoni, instead, just go back to the last race of 2018/19 (Soldeu finals) and to the first of the following season in Soelden, when it ended. 11 ° and 18 ° respectively.
On a slope that he loves like the Gran Risa (at least as far as the giant is concerned, it could be more complicated for the slalom), the native of Lorenskog is ready to leave and then face, in just over 40 days, the beauty of 9 slaloms (7 in January alone) which will be the real key to the fight for the absolute World Cup. Alexis Pinturault is bringing home, as in previous years, good points also from the super-g, but without the combined at stake, Kristoffersen's choice was clear: to bet everything on giant and slalom.
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Giant slalom Male Alta Badia (ITA)
PINTURAULT Alexis
MCGRATH Atle Lie
MURISIER Justin
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