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Friday (11.30) the first of the Kitzbuehel triptych: six blues at the start, Innerhofer with 12, Marsaglia draws on 25 as in today's test where he finished second. Open prediction, Cochran-Siegle (who will start with 13) is scary but watch out for reigning champion Matthias Mayer with number 7 ...
Thursday 21 January 2021 6 minutes reading time
The Streif and all its immensity, albeit without the outline of the most incredible public of the World Cup, stands out on the horizon of the jet men.
A few more hours and it will be time for the descent, or rather "THE" descent par excellence, that of Kitzbuehel; due to what happened in Wengen, there will be two appointments on the most feared and spectacular track of the circuit (even if, we allow ourselves to say, in terms of difficulty, the Stelvio di Bormio has perhaps even a little more). It starts on Friday with the first descent (start at 11.30, live TV on Eurosport and Rai Sport), unfortunately lacking many expected protagonists such as Dressen, long-term injured and just today back on skis after the hip operation , Kilde and Caviezel who got hurt in training in recent days, as well as another emerging such as Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, forced to the pits due to knee problems, without forgetting an excellent athlete like Niels Hintermann.
However, it will also be the return match on Dominik Paris' Streif, two years after having tamed it for the third time in descent (four total successes considering also the super-g of 2015) and one year, coinciding with today, from '' training accident in Kirchberg. "Domme", today an excellent fourth in qualifying, has chosen bib n ° 9 for the poker attempt, and they will immediately be real thrills considering that the dominator of the last training, Vincent Kriechmayr, has opted for the 3 and will start just before of another very dangerous Austrian like Max Franz.
Beat Feuz, who never won in Kitz, will start with 5, defending champion Matthias Mayer with 7: after Paris, pay attention also to the French patrol with Bailet and Clarey (today he crashed in practice, but everything is ok for the transalpine veteran ), but above all to the US one. Cochran-Siegle in particular, but also Travis Ganong, are really fast and will come out of the gate one after the other, respectively with bibs 13 and 14.
Just before them, the second blue of the list of six (there will be no Pietro Zazzi compared to the tests, with the Valtellinese who suffered really important gaps in his debut on the Streif), or Christof Innerhofer who drew 12th. He doesn't expect anything the champion from Gais, considering what happened with Covid after Bormio, but we'll see if he can come up with something like Matteo Marsaglia did today in the test, second time behind Kriechmayr. The Piedmontese by adoption will start with the same number 25 worn today, finally the other three Italjet standard bearers after 30. We are talking about Buzzi (33), in great difficulty even in the two days of testing, Cazzaniga with the 41 and Schieder, who set a good 16th time today, with bib 53.
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MEN'S DESCENT - KITZBUEHEL
Startlist: 1 Jansrud, 2 Baumann, 3 Kriechmayr, 4 Franz, 5 Feuz, 6 Sander, 7 Mayer, 8 Allegre, 9 Paris, 10 Bailet, 11 Clarey, 12 Innerhofer, 13 Cochran-Siegle, 14 Ganong, 15 Janka, 16 Cater, 17 Kryenbuehl, 18 Bennett, 19 Muzaton, 20 Striedinger, 25 Marsaglia, 33 Buzzi, 41 Cazzaniga, 53 Schieder.
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