Santa Caterina Valfurva for its first giant: Nestvold-Haugen opens, n ° 9 for De Aliprandini

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Eight blues competing in the first of two appointments between the wide doors in Valtellina. On Saturday the 1st heat at 10.30, Pinturault with bib number 2 before the returning Odermatt: the complete startlist.

Friday 4 December 2020 6 minutes reading time

The return of Santa Caterina Valfurva in the men's World Cup, after having hosted on the "Deborah Compagnoni" downhill, super-g, slalom and combined in past years, will take place on Saturday and Sunday with the first two giants in Valtellina, the second and third of the season after Soelden and recoveries of canceled races in Val d''Isère. A crazy job to set up a track that, although not too selective on a technical level, can "hurt" and will have to be interpreted, also considering that the weather will not be too helpful, with more snow expected in these hours; the races, however, do not seem to be in danger and tomorrow it will be time for a new challenge between the wide doors, with the first heat scheduled at 10.30 (drawn by Suman, the Croatian coach) and the second at 13.30, based on Krug's design ( Switzerland). Live TV on Eurosport 1 and Rai Sport. "Although a lot of snow is expected during the night, tomorrow morning we are confident that we will be able to play the race also because conditions should improve - said the chief race director of the circus, Markus Waldner - It will be a long night of work, but the 'organization has many men on the track and we are confident ”. EIGHT AZZURRI AT THE ASSALT The draw of the bibs, obviously directly at the captains' meeting and without any public ceremony, with the entire weekend without spectator involvement, assigned the number 1 to Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, first of the many Norwegians at the start in the top 15, as there will then be Kristoffersen with 7, the red Braathen bib with 8 (the maximum being in the second sub-group) and Kilde with 10. Cup leader Alexis Pinturault will start second, ahead of Marco Odermatt who will have number 3 on the day of his return after having cleared up the Covid problem that forced the Swiss, 2nd in Soelden, to skip the parallel of Lech / Zuers. Before Kristoffersen we will also see Ford, Kranjec and Zubcic in order. Good draw for Luca De Aliprandini, bib number 9, while Gino Caviezel (author of a great start to the season) will have 13 and Ligety will close with 15. In Italy, still lacking Moelgg and Maurberger, the focus is strongly on Giovanni Borsotti, at the starting gate with the number 27; Then there will be the comeback of Riccardo Tonetti with the bib n ° 36, just before Roberto Nani (n ° 38), but Hannes Zingerle will also go hunting for points with the 47, Daniele Sorio (57), Stefano Baruffaldi (58) and Alex Hofer with 61, after the South Tyrolean obtained a 3rd and a 5th place this week in the two inaugural European Cup giants in Gurgl. To remember the return to the post Covid race also for Marco Schwarz, immediately out of the top 15, as well as Manuel Feller who had skipped Soelden and Lech to recover from back problems, while from the bib 31 to 34 we will find two sprinters and two slalomists to observe carefully. Kriechmayr and Jansrud on the one hand, just to "warm up" one week before starting the speed season in Val d''Isère, Yule and Noel on the other and also in this case to give themselves a test before getting serious with the debut of specialties in Alta Badia and Campiglio, 21-22 December. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MALE GIANT - SANTA CATERINA VALFURVA Startlist 1st run: 1 Nestvold-Haugen, 2 Pinturault, 3 Odermatt, 4 Ford, 5 Kranjec, 6 Zubcic, 7 Kristoffersen, 8 Braathen, 9 De Aliprandini, 10 Kilde, 11 Meillard, 12 Muffat-Jeandet, 13 G. Caviezel , 14 Faivre, 15 Ligety, 27 Borsotti, 36 Tonetti, 38 Nani, 47 H. Zingerle, 57 Sorio, 58 Baruffaldi, 61 Hofer.

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