Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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The champion norge signs the poker on his track, with Mayer second at 22 cents and Kriechmayr third, while Odermatt is far away today and gives up the red bib. An excellent Dominik Paris close to the top five, waiting for the descent.
Friday 17 December 2021 5 minutes reading time
If today's victory is number 8 for a Norwegian in the last 10 super-g disputed on the Saslong, there must be a reason.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, to win today the first of the two races in "his" Val Gardena, however, really took that little bit more, given that a masterpiece was needed to stay ahead of Matthias Mayer and Vincent Kriechmayr, who are also extraordinary in the interpretation of the very fast track designed by Andreas Evers (former Wunderteam technician and leader of the Germans for some time).
AAK wrote the number 4 in terms of successes on his favorite track (dreaming tomorrow of completing the double as in 2020), but above all it is the third consecutive success in speed for the champion norge, after super-g and descent at Beaver Creek, ninth in the World Cup and fifth in this discipline. Olympic champion Matthias Mayer was bent by 22 cents, all of them sold in the final stretch, with Vincent Kriechmayr (who fell before the two rivals) who seemed to have painted an already perfect test, but in the end the world champion will be forced to settle for the third place, he who had won the super-g of Val Gardena two years ago.
The others did a different race, with Beat Feuz who only partially exploited an ideal track for its characteristics, returning close to the podium with fourth place at 57 cents, and Switzerland also found the great 5th of Stefan Rogentin (with bib 21, also took advantage of an excellent light arrived on the Saslong), which preceded Dominik Paris by 6 cents.
The best blue, sixth, puts down an excellent race, with some small regrets for the smears committed after the area of the Gobbe del Camel. Downhill perhaps it will be, paradoxically, more complicated for “Domme”, but woe to consider him out of the game for the highly anticipated race on Saturday.
The seventh place of James Crawford is only a partial surprise, considering the qualities of the Canadian, who preceded the other North Americans Cochran-Siegle and Ganong, divided by a cent to ... a second from Kilde, but in their case the low bib it was certainly not favorable, given that today the references were crucial.
The top ten is completed by Josef Ferstl, at 1 "04, while today's race is the worst of the season for Marco Odermatt, only 18 ° (at 1" 37 from Kilde, without particular errors but we must remember that he did not test descent, thinking directly of the giants in Badia) and forced to sell the specialty red bib to Mayer. Two cents ahead of the leader of the general, here is Mattia Casse who closes 17th and also pays the number 3, like Christof Innerhofer who started second and far away. Waiting, speaking of blues, of the descents of Bosca, Buzzi, Franzoso and Marsaglia (bib 50).
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Super-G Male Val Gardena-Groeden (ITA)
KILDE Aleksander Aamodt
MAYER Matthias
KRIECHMAYR Vincent
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