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Saturday at the Italian dawn (1st round at 2.00, 2nd at 5.00) the sixth specialty event. Kilde, for the first time in the second sub-group, challenges Kristoffersen and Pinturault. Only five blues at the start.
Friday 21 February 2020 4 minutes reading time
Another crucial appointment in the fight for the general World Cup, as well as a new chance at home for Italy to find that giant podium that has been missing for over 3 years (Eisath in Alta Badia in December 2016), in a place that saw Max Blardone give and treat yourself to the last pearl of your career.
Indeed, in Yuzawa Naeba, the Piedmontese took a sensational 3rd place 4 years, a few weeks after the end of his adventure in the white circus which then took place in Sankt Moritz. The World Cup is back on the Japanese snow, despite the controversy and doubts related to the Coronavirus effect in that area too, for a giant and a slalom clearly delicate in the comparison between Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, new general leader after the fast races in Saalbach , Henrik Kristoffersen and Alexis Pinturault.
The sixth seasonal giant will start on the night between Friday and Saturday (at 2.00 Italian the 1st heat, drawn by the German Brunner, at 5.00 the second drawn by Pfeifer, technician of the Austrians), with Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen to open with the bib number 1 before Faivre, here second 4 years ago, and the Kristoffersen-Pinturault duo in series with 3 and 4. The Norwegian must cancel Garmisch, the French instead won the last giant and the race held in Yuzawa Naeba in 2016. Overtaking in sight in 2nd place? Possible, but everything is really wide open and attention to Kilde, for the first time in the second sub-group (she fished No. 10), who on a slope far from impossible could do very well again between the wide doors.
Kranjec (bib number 5) will defend the primacy in the specialty, but athletes such as Odermatt (11) and Zubcic (13) could come back, and who knows also a Luca De Aliprandini who, with the bib number 8, will be the only blue over there. Only five Italians at the start, with Tonetti n ° 25, Borsotti with 30, Hannes Zingerle with 38 and Daniele Sorio, after the first point in Garmisch, with 45.
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MALE GIANT - YUZAWA NAEBA
Startlist 1st round: 1 Nestvold-Haugen, 2 Faivre, 3 Kristoffersen, 4 Pinturault, 5 Kranjec, 6 Ford, 7 Muffat-Jeandet, 8 De Aliprandini, 9 Caviezel G., 10 Kilde, 11 Odermatt, 12 Ligety, 13 Zubcic , 14 Olsson, 15 Murisier, 25 Tonetti, 30 Borsotti, 38 Zingerle H., 45 Sorio.
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ODERMATT Marco
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