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Sunday (10 and 13.30 the two heats) the two days in Alta Badia start with the queen race. Zubcic draws on 1, Kranjec will be there after the death of his father, from 5 to 8 the four favorites for the coppone. De Aliprandini will start tenth.
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It will be the third consecutive giant on Italian snows, the fourth of the World Cup season and don't want Soelden and Santa Caterina Valfurva, but the Gran Risa represents the highlight of this first part of the year between wide doors.
The Alta Badia temple is ready to welcome a two-day event that changes for this year, with the return of the slalom on Monday: after the one-two of Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in Val Gardena, the new leader of the cup will try to defend himself in the challenge scheduled on the most beautiful and difficult slope in the world for pure gigantists, with the first heat set at 10.00 (the German Brunner traces) and the second at 13.30 based on the design of the former coach of Marcel Hirscher , here winner six times in a row (and eight in total if we consider slalom and PGS), that Mike Pircher who from this year leads the disastrous Austrian specialty formation. Kilde will start with the number 8, thanks to the excellent draw this afternoon which, in turn, gave Filip Zubcic, first and third in the two giants of Santa Caterina, the bib number 1.
The Croatian will follow a Tommy Ford who returned to the podium on the “Deborah Compagnoni”, then with the number 3 Zan Kranjec who will compete for his father, who tragically died just over a week ago, while the Slovenian was training at Reiteralm.
And after Nestvold-Haugen with the 4, here is the triptych formed by Pinturault with the 5, Marco Odermatt red bib with the 6 (with the memory of the knee crash on the Gran Risa 12 months ago) and the one who won in 2019, on a slope shortened in a very difficult day, or Henrik Kristoffersen who will come out of the starting gate for seventh.
In the second sub-group, after Kilde and Muffat-Jeandet, here is the great blue hope of the podium who responds to the name of Luca De Aliprandini; number 10 for the Trentino, one step away from his first top 3 in the second giant from Valtellina and always brilliant on the Gran Risa (two sevenths and an eighth place from 2016 to 2018).
Nine blues in the race, with Borsotti, Tonetti and Nani who will still have quite good numbers, then Zingerle and Hofer with 46 and 47 and finally, after Stefano Baruffaldi who has just returned from his first points in the CdM, the great news of the very young Giovanni Franzoni and Filippo Della Vite. At his debut in the maximum circuit, the Brescia player will start with 58, the Bergamo player with 65; the two azzurrini will be the only ones born in 2001 to compete in the temple ...
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MALE GIANT - ALTA BADIA
Startlist 1st run: 1 Zubcic, 2 Ford, 3 Kranjec, 4 Nestvold-Haugen, 5 Pinturault, 6 Odermatt, 7 Kristoffersen, 8 Kilde, 9 Muffat-Jeandet, 10 De Aliprandini, 11 Meillard, 12 Faivre, 13 Caviezel G. , 14 Braathen, 15 Schmid A., 27 Borsotti, 33 Tonetti, 37 Nani, 46 Zingerle H., 47 Hofer, 56 Baruffaldi, 58 Franzoni, 65 Della Vite.
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