Paris with 9, Feuz with 19: the startlist of the first test in Saalbach, towards two crucial descents

Wednesday (10.00) the first of the two training sessions with the hot unknown: "Domme" must recover 118 points from the holder of the last three crystal balls, but in the middle there is also Mayer. Only four Azzurri at the start towards the races on Friday and Saturday (followed on Sunday by the super-g).

Tuesday 2 March 2021 5 minutes reading time

Last year there were not two quality races, far from it, and the risk that the situation will repeat itself does exist. Temperatures in Saalbach-Hinterglemm are definitely high, even if forecasts indicate a drop during the three competition days, from Friday to Sunday, when two descents and a super will be staged in the Austrian area that will host the world championships in 2025. -g, recoveries of canceled appointments between Wengen and Kvitfjell. A crucial step of the men's World Cup, also and above all in the fight for the specialty crystal balls: 6 races out of 9 on the calendar were played in descent and the fight is now restricted to three men, with Beat Feuz defending 48 points on Matthias Mayer and 118 on Dominik Paris, who won the last race held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen before the world championships in Cortina which were bitter for the three rulers of the discipline (only Feuz took home a bronze in downhill ). The first of the two scheduled tests will be staged on Wednesday, anticipated at 10.00 (the first race on Friday is set at 11.20, Saturday instead at 11.00) since the heat is worrying and how, with temperatures already around 8 ° -9 ° at that time. ''Now. Dominik Paris chose bib n ° 9 for the first test on the Zwoelferkogel, with Janka to open followed by vice world champion Andreas Sander (bib 3) and Marco Odermatt (4), looking for points to try to approach Alexis Pinturault , who will then compete on Sunday in super-g. Mayer, who here signed a double between downhill and super-g in 2015 (last year in downhill Thomas Dressen won, absent for the new knee surgery after Cortina), will start with 7 in practice, the new world champion Vincent Kriechmayr with the '' 11 while the second of only four blues at the gate, Christof Innerhofer, with 13. There will be Mauro Caviezel (bib 16), also returning to the CdM after the attempt made in the super-g of the World Cup, and Beat Feuz has chosen finally the highest bib among the big names, starting with the 19. Matteo Marsaglia with 23 and Lele Buzzi with 33 then complete Ghidoni's quartet in search of the points to win the pass in view of the final of Lenzerheide. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MEN'S DESCENT - SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM Startlist 1st round: 1 Janka, 2 Cater, 3 Sander, 4 Odermatt, 5 Jansrud, 6 Franz, 7 Mayer, 8 Muzaton, 9 Paris, 10 Striedinger, 11 Kriechmayr, 12 Ganong, 13 Innerhofer, 14 Allegre, 15 Clarey, 16 M. Caviezel, 17 Baumann, 18 Bailet, 19 Feuz, 20 Bennett, 23 Marsaglia, 33 Buzzi.

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