Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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Saturday (at 9.00 the 1st heat, at 12.00 the second) the challenge between the wide doors on the "Roc de Fer" in Méribel. The winner of the World Cup with number 1, the blue will start fifth and still aim for the final podium in the discipline. Also in the race Borsotti and ... Kilde.
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The eighth and last male giant of the World Cup season, to find out if there can be a third different winner after Marco Odermatt's poker and Henrik Kristoffersen's trio, fresh from Kranjska Gora's brace, and how it will complete the final specialty podium.
The latter is the goal of Luca De Aliprandini, in addition to looking for the second top 3 of the season to close another great year (in any case in the world top 7, already thinking of Soelden 2022): the Trentino, at on the eve of the final race on the “Roc de Fer” in Méribel, he is fourth in the classification of the discipline, having to recover 53 points from Manuel Feller and with a margin of 13 over Alexis Pinturault.
The start at 9.00 on Saturday, for a first run with Croatian tracing, with the second at 12.00 (Swiss design) and Marco Odermatt who will open with his red bib and number 1, before his compatriot Murisier, Feller himself and the landlord Pinturault, while De Aliprandini fished the bib number 5 and the two leading Norwegians, Braathen and Kristoffersen, to close the first sub-group.
From Radamus to Kranjec, from Brennsteiner to Meillard with the 14th, open race for the podium and a second blue at the gate to try to finish the year in the points. Giovanni Borsotti, in fact, will start with the number 22, just before Kilde, who finally returns to be a giant already thinking about the fight for the "coppone" 2022/23, and of the world champion jr Alexander Steen Olsen, at the start with the n ° 26 right after his national team captain.
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Startlist 1st run: 1 Odermatt, 2 Murisier, 3 Feller, 4 Pinturault, 5 De Aliprandini, 6 Braathen, 7 Kristoffersen, 8 Radamus, 9 G. Caviezel, 10 Schmid, 11 Kranjec, 12 Brennsteiner, 13 Faivre, 14 Meillard, 15 Zubcic, 22 Borsotti.
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ODERMATT Marco
PINHEIRO BRAATHEN Lucas
MEILLARD Loic
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