Aleksander Aamodt Kilde will open the men's cup. De Aliprandini (bib 11) wants to try it on the Rettenbach

The startlist of the first male giant of the season (Sunday at 10.00 the 1st heat). Zubcic, Pinturault and Kristoffersen will start immediately after the winner of the last crystal ball and will be the references. Seven blues in the race.

Saturday 17 October 2020 6 minutes reading time

After the all-blue triumph in the women's race, Soelden is preparing to host the men's opening of a 2020/21 World Cup which on Sunday will also see the men face a very tough Rettenbach at full speed. The first giant of the season will start at 10.00, with the 2nd heat scheduled at 13.15 (live on Eurosport 2 and Raisport for both races), with 62 athletes competing and 7 Azzurri to play it. Luca De Aliprandini will be looking for the first podium of his career once again, with the Trentino rider who demonstrated last season that he is now very close to the best in the discipline, fifth in the last race (it was last March 2) in Hinterstoder and 8th in the opening one year ago. Luca will start with bib n ° 11 on the design of the French coach Perrin (the second entrusted to the Slovenian Bergant instead), opened by the winner of the last absolute World Cup, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. The Norwegian will race for the first time with the n ° 1 in giant, coming out of the gate before Zubcic, who literally exploded last season also winning his first race in Yuzawa-Naeba, an Alexis Pinturault with a lot of hunger and winner in the last two races held here in Soelden (2016 and 2019, given that the male giant was not played due to weather in 2017 and 2018), and a Henrik Kristoffersen who never loved Rettenbach, but is still the holder of the crystal between the wide doors. Bib number 5 instead for Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, to precede at the start Kranjec (third in 2019, watch out for the Slovenian) and Tommy Ford, with the pair of Americans in the series since Ted Ligety has fished the number 8 in the second subgroup and will go in search of another great result in “his” race, he triumphed here four times and able to get his best result in the last two seasons with the 5th place a year ago. If Mathieu Faivre himself (n ° 9) could do well, where he was second in 2019, the rehearsals of Lucas Braathen and Marco Odermatt, two of the terrible young people of the white circus who did not fish very well, starting respectively with the bibs, will all be worth seeing. 14 and 15. Austria, without Manuel Feller, will start immediately out of 15 with Schwarz and Mayer to play for a good result, then around 30 there is a lot of Italy to look for weight points. From Giovanni Borsotti with Manfred Moelgg's 29 to 33, who immediately returns to the giant nine months after Adelboden's injury and will face Rettenbach for the 13th time in his career, the hopes of a good placement are not lacking even for Roberto Nani ( n ° 34), Daniele Sorio and Stefano Baruffaldi (48 and 49), and the same Tommaso Sala (n ° 54) willing to test himself in giant as well. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST MALE GIANT - SOELDEN Startlist 1st run: 1 Kilde, 2 Zubcic, 3 Pinturault, 4 Kristoffersen, 5 Nestvold-Haugen, 6 Kranjec, 7 Ford, 8 Ligety, 9 Faivre, 10 Caviezel G., 11 De Aliprandini, 12 Meillard, 13 Muffat-Jeandet , 14 Braathen, 15 Odermatt, 29 Borsotti, 33 Moelgg, 34 Nani, 48 Sorio, 49 Baruffaldi, 54 Sala.

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