Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Define the French formations for the four days in Italy. The Cup leader concentrated on the Gran Risa, where he never won. Germany home injury for Manuel Schmid: broken hand and long stop for the sprinter.
Tuesday 17 December 2019 4 minutes reading time
No super-g in Val Gardena, a choice already made several times in the past, to bet everything on the two races in Alta Badia to recover a record that is likely to lose between Friday and Saturday.
This is the choice of Alexis Pinturault, the World Cup leader who will play heavy points on the Gran Risa giant that he never tamed in his career on Sunday (a 2nd place in 2013 and the 3rd in the last edition), as well as in the parallel giant of Monday, in which it boasts the podium (third) of 12 months ago.
On the "Saslong" we will then see the same group of transalpine sprinters that faced the North American trip, with eleven elements and a selection that will take place with the tests on Wednesday and Thursday.
Sunday on the snows badiote, instead, alongside Pinturault here is Muffat-Jeandet, Faivre, Favrot, Sarrazin and Falgoux, while the interesting novelty that emerges from the convocations concerns the other ace of the Equipe de France, Clément Noel. Reduced from the bitter slalom of Val d''Isère, the 22-year-old Vosges native wants to play his chances in the parallel giant at night next Monday, considering that his qualities in this discipline (even if emerged in the city events) are of good standard.
Noel will train on Wednesday and Thursday in Courchevel, right at the Pinturault home, to then join his teammates with whom he will face the second race on the Gran Risa. Muffat-Jeandet, Faivre, Favrot (2nd last year behind Hirscher), of course Pinturault and Cyprien Sarrazin, who won this race (the only success in his career) in 2016, are sure of a place for the parallel giant.
ACCIDENT IN THE GERMANY HOUSE
Another injury in Germany, in some ways similar to that of Linus Strasser and with similar recovery times.
The German national team of speed will lose Manuel Schmid for six weeks, who was preparing the Val Gardena races and was injured in a training session in Alta Badia. Fracture to the second metacarpal of the right hand, immediate operation and long stop for the 26 year old who, right on the Saslong, obtained in 2017 the best career result with the 16th place downhill.
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