Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Tomorrow from 11.30 last timed test on the "Stelvio": the Swiss champion, who spoke today at the press conference, will be in the game despite the strong cold which advised him to avoid the first training session. The conditions of Bailet and Schuller, who fell today.
Monday 26 December 2022 8 minutes reading time
A polished Stelvio, despite the fairly high temperatures in Bormio, capable of presenting itself as the usual track that demands a lot from the athletes, so much so that today in the first of the two scheduled races, towards the fifth seasonal descent of the men's CdM scheduled for Wednesday, unfortunately it was two transalpine athletes who paid the price.
Let's start from the conditions of Matthieu Bailet and Victor Schuller, on the ground after the Salto della Rocca and out for the appointment in Valtellina (barring miracles), given that the former was taken away by helicopter, "but he always remained conscious and let's hope it's nothing too serious,” the head coach of the French national speed team, Xavier Fournier-Bidoz, told Le Dauphiné.
As far as Schuller is concerned, the pain concerns a wrist in particular and only more in-depth examinations will indicate any problems and recovery times.
We won't see them in the second training scheduled for Tuesday, again from 11.30, in which Beat Feuz will participate. The Olympic champion spoke at a press conference this afternoon, a moment chosen to explain his choice to retire, announced last Wednesday, in the first public meeting after the official announcement: the Swiss champion will continue his career until next January 21, closing on the occasion of the second descent on the Streif of Kitzbuehel, but would like to make a good impression in the last appointments of a legendary career, perhaps even in Bormio where he has always suffered.
Today Beat chose not to take part in test number 1 as he returned from days of rest due to a severe cold, but the idea is absolutely to make it for tomorrow and be in good condition for Wednesday's descent.
The second trial will be inaugurated by a Ryan Cochran-Siegle who seems to be in trouble again here too, he who dominated the super-g on the Stelvio two years ago, before Kitz's serious injury. Many stars and stripes bishops with low bibs, then with number 6 here is Aleksander Aamodt Kilde for a new level test 24 hours before the race, even if considering the fatigue that eats into the muscles on a track like this, it is likely that tomorrow few will push to the end, as the norge ace did today only up to the height of the last intermediate stage.
Mayer and Clarey, already fast in the first training, will start with numbers 7 and 8 before Kriechmayr and Paris: bib 10 for Domme, 11th at 1"17 from Christof Innerhofer and finally with some good signs, but also the sensation, according to what was declared by the six times King of the Stelvio, that there is room to play for something big on the most important day, Wednesday. Before Feuz with 13 here are the compatriots Odermatt (the same argument made for Kilde is valid, the speed is there and the chances of victory are there for the race) and Hintermann, after Hemetsberger and with 15 James Crawford, second fastest in the race -1.
The best was Innerhofer, who on Tuesday will be on the track with number 26 (today he had number 21) and will seek confirmation on one of his favorite tracks: the Azzurri are also on the attack with Marsaglia (number 19) and Casse (20) , but also Pietro Zazzi hasn't joked so far, 9th time to start and in the last test at the gate with 52, to seal his presence in the home descent, he who officially plays one of the two bibs available with Franzoso and Alliod, which will be in the final part of the startlist with numbers 60 and 62.
Before them, Molteni with the 35, Schieder with the 49 and Franzoni with the 54, remembering that the Brescian has the nominal bib for the race.
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MEN'S DOWNHILL – BORMIO
Startlist 2nd round: 1 Cochran-Siegle, 2 Ferstl, 3 Ganong, 4 Bennett, 5 Rogentin, 6 Kilde, 7 Mayer, 8 Clarey, 9 Kriechmayr, 10 Paris, 11 Odermatt, 12 Hintermann 13 Feuz, 14 Hemetsberger, 15 Crawford , 16 Striedinger, 17 Baumann, 18 Schwaiger, 19 Marsaglia, 20 Casse, 26 Innerhofer, 35 Molteni, 49 Schieder, 52 Zazzi, 54 Franzoni, 60 Franzoso, 62 Alliod.
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