Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Volunteers at work all night, Pinturault will open on the track of his technician. Azzurri on the assault with De Aliprandini (n ° 10). LIVE on NEVEITALIA
Sunday 22 December 2019 6 minutes reading time
It will be a "Baby Risa", more than a Gran, but the enormous work of the volunteers and the organization that maintained the bottom of the giant's queen track, will still guarantee the show of the third seasonal specialty event, in the heart of the Alta Abbey.
Start at 10 then with the most classic race in the discipline (at 13 the second), albeit on a track that has been shortened substantially, since first the high temperatures and then the snowfall on Saturday (which is continuing, more light, also this morning), have made it difficult to manage the upper part of the track, which has therefore been cut.
It will start from the diagonal at the bottom of the first wall, for a round of about a minute which will then open the two Badiota days, which foresees the parallel giant from Monday afternoon.
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On the track of the transalpine technician Frederic Perrin, it will be the captain of the Team de France, Alexis Pinturault who wants to take back the leadership of the World Cup and maybe even his first victory over the Gran Risa, to be the first to exit the starting gate.
Henrik Kristoffersen will follow, also he always beaten by Hirscher here in Alta Badia, but who likes the context of the race, before Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen with the 3, in great shape after getting his second podium at Beaver Creek career at World Cup level. Maximum attention to Zan Kranjec (4), who on such a track can once again be exalted, as well as to Mathieu Faivre (second 3 years ago) and to the red breastplate Tommy Ford, who will start in sixth in defense of the primacy achieved with the triumph on the Birds of Prey.
To close the first sub-group Loic Meillard, expected at a level race after a start to the season that is anything but irresistible, but also watch the very first numbers of the second sub-group, with Ligety who might like the cut of the steep initial and will start with the 8, preceding Marco Odermatt (3rd last year after the 1st heat before making a mistake in the second) and Luca De Aliprandini, first of the nine Azzurri at the start and always with a certain feeling on the Gran Risa.
Muffat-Jeandet (13) is in excellent shape, to understand instead the condition of Stefan Luitz, finished out of 15 and at the start for 17th, and if the track will not be ruined too much the Canadians could do very well Philp (19) and Read ( 23), but also Braathen with the 27th and, after the 30th, we will see how Mayer and Kilde will manage, also from an overall viewpoint.
Among them, the other two blues in the top 30 are Moelgg, who will shoot with the 24, and Tonetti with the 26, then here is Ballerin (43), Maurberger (44), Hannes Zingerle (45), Giulio Bosca with 47, Giovanni Borsotti with the 52 and finally Roberto Nani on his return with the bib number 58.
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