Analysis of the season in the World Cup alpine skiing Italu

You & egrave; ended yesterday the 50th of the Alpine Ski World Cup and for the & rsquo; Italy's budget can not memorize options that being largely positive, even great in some ways.

Monday 21 March 2016 8 minutes reading time

Often & egrave; It happened in the past that blue and azure gave their best in the seasons with no World Cup and Olympic Games and cos & igrave; & Egrave; It was also in quest & rsquo; winter. No coincidence that the last cups of specialty & agrave; l & rsquo; Italy had won in 2007-2008 with Manfred Moelgg in the men's slalom and Denise Karbon in the female giant, this time there & egrave; managed Peter Fill. For him it is the same argument made for Lara Gut: Lucky S & igrave ;, because & eacute; if Aksel Lund Svindal had not injured the downhill cup does not l & rsquo; would have won, but also very good at exploiting the & rsquo; occasion despite the tension it attanagliasse enough to not let him get to sleep for days. With ifs and buts it does not make history, and this trophy & egrave; a sort of lifetime achievement award for a serious and humble athlete who until quest & rsquo; year had definitely won less than they could, but the satisfaction of being the first Italian to take the downhill cup at home, something that not even Kristian Ghedina was never successful, he is priceless. Dominik Paris, after a first half & agrave; season hiccups, demonstrated in & rsquo; last month and a half its full potential, too bad for the & rsquo; injury trial in St. Moritz which has also prevented him, as Svindal, to play all the way down his papers for the trophy of descent. For the rest of the season & rsquo; male Italy, although with 71 placings in the top ten has beaten its own 67, which was the previous record obtained memorize options in 27 races in 1974-1975 against 44 of quest & rsquo; winter, he has had some light and some shadows too, so & egrave; true that the Blues do not end even on the podium of the men's rankings for nations closing quarters: not seen for nine years. Three wins, two of Paris and a Fill, and 14 podiums, 5 of Paris, 3 Fill, 3 Stefano Gross, one each for Christof Innerhofer, the pi & ugrave; inconstant as the yield spreads between big blue, Giuliano Razzoli, stopped on most & ugrave; beautiful from & rsquo; injury Kitzb & uuml; hel, and Massimiliano Blardone. It & rsquo; was precisely the veteran to return to the podium after the most & ugrave; three years l & rsquo; Italian giant, author of a season, Blardone aside, very disappointing, and its Max said that the third-place finish in Naeba & egrave; was the most & ugrave; important of his career because & eacute; It allowed him to leave the & rsquo; activity & agrave; with a beautiful memory. It & rsquo; It was definitely a record instead of the season & rsquo; Italian women. The Italians were placed second in the country league behind halved but still unreachable Austria: only once the Italian had closed cos & igrave; at the top in the standings, in the 2002-2003 season, but the credit for a large part was Karen Putzer, this time & egrave; It was about the collective. Five girls, and this & egrave; Federica Brignone, Nadia Fanchini, Johanna Schnarf, Elena Curtoni and Francesca Marsaglia, were placed in the top 25 of the overall standings, and all five, never happened with cos & igrave; many athletes since the score of the World Cup & egrave; changed in the 1991-1992 season, they touched or substantially exceeded the fateful quota of 400 points, which until a few years ago ensured l & rsquo; access to the final of the World Cup in all the races, not really forget that Brignone & egrave; He went to points in all specialties & agrave ;. Also the blue closed fourth in the downhill standings but just 76 points from & rsquo; Austria and first in those super-G and giant, have literally smashed the previous season record of total placings in the top ten, 44, dating back to 1993- 1994: quest & rsquo; winter have ringed over 70! however remains the feeling that we could do even better & nbsp; especially in giant, especially in light of the many negative first round between the wide doors then redeemed in the second: & egrave; true that 10 seasonal podiums (6 Brignone, 2 Nadia Fanchini, one of the veteran warrior Daniela Merighetti and 1 Elena Curtoni) there & rsquo; were for seven years and that at least three victories (2 Brignone and the pi & ugrave ; memorable, Nadia Fanchini in La Thuile) there & rsquo; were eight, but the absolute record for the & rsquo; Italian women, 20 podiums and 10 victories in the magical 1996-1997 season, have remained far apart. There & rsquo; & egrave; however, no doubt that this has been a fantastic season for our women's alpine skiing but should not be a point of arrival bens & igrave; starting to do even better in & rsquo; immediate future, perhaps creating a team of multi-purpose with Brignone in the leading role and which are part of the athletes go beyond the 400 pi & ugrave points; Sofia goggia and Marta Bassino.

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