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Finals in Lenzerheide: without downhill and super-g the favorite for the cup is Pinturault, always ahead of 31 points, and the Frenchman talks about "today's cancellation that surprised me. If we look at the weather, even the giant on Saturday is at risk ".
Thursday 18 March 2021 4 minutes reading time
A largely ruined fight, especially with regard to the Women's World Cup which now seems to be over with Petra Vlhova just a stone's throw from the triumph.
Even at the male level, however, the cancellation of the fast races in Lenzerheide clearly brings the favors of the prediction for the absolute crystal ball towards France (who has not celebrated for 24 years, or Luc Alphand who triumphed at the end of the 1996/97 season) and Alexis Pinturault, always ahead of Marco Odermatt by 31 points with only the two technical races of the scheduled finals. The Swiss, in great shape after dominating the last two races, between the super-g of Saalbach and the giant of Kranjska Gora, still believes in it however and has already decided that, if he will remain in the race after the giant expected on Saturday , will also throw in the slalom on Sunday.
Odermatt put his short skis back on Tuesday, as the “Blick” explains; he had not trained for a long time between the narrow poles, where he has not competed for 3 years since he competed in the Swiss national championships in Meiringer, in April 2018. Be careful though, since the Nidwalden phenomenon is far from poor in slalom , as he demonstrated by dominating the combined jr World Championships in Davos 2018 (when he took home four titles). The problem is that in recent seasons, when he was ready to compete in the combined World Cup, the Swiss had no chance with the knee injury remedied in December 2019 in Alta Badia (the following week he would have competed in Bormio) and, in this year, the exclusion of this discipline from the revised post Covid calendar.
"I wanted to put pressure on Alexis, now it will be much more difficult to win the cup, but I'll try again", Odermatt said this morning to Rai Sport, while the super-g was canceled where, among other things, yes he could have played the last chances as well for the specialty cup.
And what does Alexis Pinturault say? Joined by his colleagues from “Ski Chrono”, the 29-year-old from Courchevel admitted that “I expected Odermatt to overtake after the fast races, while I didn't think that the super-g would be canceled today. Lenzerheide always has special conditions, the weather seemed to be good and I am surprised at what happened. The problem is that, if I look at the forecasts, even the giant on Saturday is far from certain ".
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