Off to the final challenge between Pinturault and Odermatt, while Noel mortgages the podium in the slalom cup

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The World Cup rankings after the Kranjska Gora slalom: there are only 31 points ahead of Alexis on the eve of the finals in Lenzerheide, but anything can happen (starting from the weather). For the third consecutive year, Clément is likely to finish in second place in his specialty (winning 8 races ...).

Monday 15 March 2021 8 minutes reading time

A very open general World Cup, all the more so after Alexis Pinturault's fork in the 2nd round of the Kranjska Gora slalom. Considering that next Sunday in Lenzerheide will close with the test between the narrow poles, and all the unknowns of the case related to this discipline, the transalpine leader is forced to avoid overtaking in the first races of the finals by a Marco Odermatt only 31 points away. The problem, for the Swiss, could be represented by the weather, with the fast races on Wednesday and Thursday highly at risk, but it is equally true that Pinturault himself could do very well between downhill and super-g, as shown by his historian on such a technical track. What is certain, the first of the four crystal balls up for grabs at the men's level was awarded on Sunday with the success of Marco Schwarz in the slalom ranking: 122 points of margin on Ramon Zenhaeusern with one test from the end, but the regrets are all by Clément Noel for his many mistakes made this season. With yesterday's success, the 23-year-old transalpine is likely to end up in second place in the final ranking for the third consecutive year (his declared goal was precisely to win the specialty cup, after finishing behind Hirscher in 2019, in a way net, and of Kristoffersen in 2020 with the mockery of those 2 points less than the Norwegian), since he has now overtaken the world champion Foss-Solevaag by 42 points and is only 30 points from Zenhaeusern himself. At the level of WCSL, practically nothing changes for the final race, with Alex Vinatzer consolidating the top 15 and will be one of the two Azzurri at the start of Lenzerheide, together with only Manfred Moelgg, given that Stefano Gross was excluded, 27th in the ranking of specialties at 7 points from the Austrian Hirschbuehl, the last to hit the entrance. MEN'S SLALOM WORLD CUP RANKING (10/11) 1st Marco Schwarz 625 pt, 2nd Ramon Zenhaeusern 503, 3rd Clément Noel 473, 4th Sebastian Foss-Solevaag 431, 5th Manuel Feller 388, 6th Henrik Kristoffersen 384, 7th Linus Strasser 318, 8th Alexis Pinturault 304 , 9th Loic Meillard 282, 10th Victor Muffat-Jeandet 278, 11th Michael Matt 228, 12th Dave Ryding 203, 13th Adrian Pertl 188, 14th Daniel Yule 169, 15th Fabio Gstrein 167, 16th Alex Vinatzer 164 , 21st Manfred Moelgg 133, 27th Stefano Gross 85, 31st Giuliano Razzoli 51, 33rd Simon Maurberger 46, 43rd Tommaso Sala 14. MEN'S GENERAL WORLD CUP RANKING (33/37) 1st Alexis Pinturault 1100 pt, 2nd Marco Odermatt 1069, 3rd Loic Meillard 760, 4th Marco Schwarz 754, 5th Matthias Mayer 700, 6th Vincent Kriechmayr 675, 7th Henrik Kristoffersen 668, 8th Filip Zubcic 664, 9 ° Beat Feuz 607, 10th Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 560, 11th Ramon Zenhaeusern 503, 12th Manuel Feller 495, 13th Clément Noel 474, 14th Sebastian Foss-Solevaag 431, 15th Dominik Paris 426, 27th Christof Innerhofer 273, 45th Luca De Aliprandini 183, 50th Alex Vinatzer 164, 53rd Manfred Moelgg 151, 70th Riccardo Tonetti 93, 73rd Matteo Marsaglia 87, 74th Giovanni Borsotti 86, 76th Stefano Gross 85, 89th Giuliano Razzoli 51, 94 ° Simon Maurberger 46, 107 ° Emanuele Buzzi 31, 119 ° Florian Schieder 18, 125 ° Filippo Della Vite 15, 129 ° Tommaso Sala 14, 131 ° Hannes Zingerle 13, 140 ° Roberto Nani 8, 141 ° Stefano Baruffaldi 7, 145 ° Alex Hofer 5, 148th Guglielmo Bosca 3. WCSL SLALOM MALE 1st Marco Schwarz 648 pt, 2nd Sebastian Foss-Solevaag 556, 3rd Ramon Zenhaeusern 554, 4th Clément Noel 519, 5th Henrik Kristoffersen 490, 6th Manuel Feller 395, 7th Alexis Pinturault 364, 8th Linus Strasser 347 , 9th Loic Meillard 294, 10th Victor Muffat-Jeandet 290, 11th Adrian Pertl 276, 12th Michael Matt 272, 13th Daniel Yule 255, 14th Alex Vinatzer 227, 15th Dave Ryding 215, 19th Manfred Moelgg 161 , 27th Stefano Gross 91, 33rd Giuliano Razzoli 57, 34th Simon Maurberger 56, 44th Tommaso Sala 16, 56th Riccardo Tonetti 2, 56th Federico Liberatore 2.

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