2021 cortina world championships
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On Monday the alpine combined that will open the world championship. Bassino and Brignone are the blue tips and will start in the first sub-group. La cuneese: "I trained well even between tight posts". The Aosta Valley: "We know the favorites, also pay attention to Grenier".
Sunday 7 February 2021 6 minutes reading time
A particular world eve, among the news of an Alpine combined conditioned by bad weather, and obviously the climate that envelops a ghostly curtain without an audience and with all the appropriate Covid restrictions.
Marta Bassino and Federica Brignone approach the first world championship race with confidence and, with the reversal of super-g and slalom for the combined on Monday morning, they could take advantage of a favorable situation in terms of bibs in the test between the tight posts at the start at 11.00. The goal can only be the medal, for both.
Marta's first impressions, thinking about the opening round of this home World Cup, in the streaming press conference organized by the FISI: "I'm calm and I'm fine, tomorrow starting with the slalom, hoping that the weather allows it, some things will change , but I think I'm ready having trained well even in the tight poles. It is clear, it is a dry race but I am ready. The rivals? Well, I've seen Federica skiing very well lately in slalom, Michelle Gisin is in great shape and I think she will do important things in this World Cup, as well as Holdener, Shiffrin and Vlhova. I think they should be taken into consideration ”.
Fede has won the last four combined races: “I'm skiing pretty well in slalom, but you have to put your best ski on the track on the right day and everything has to work. In the meantime, let's start by giving 100%, I add Valerie Grenier among the very dangerous opponents ”.
The inversion between super-g and slalom does not want to be too conditioning for the two top Italians, "we will have to adapt, even more so because it is the first combined of the year", while more generally on the objectives of this world championship , for the Cuneo-based "the giant is clearly the race on which I aim most, but I want to do well in the others too".
And for the Aosta Valley, "it is difficult to say whether it is better to start with the combined or another type of race, we must aim for the maximum".
In Monday's combined, Elena Curtoni will start in the second sub-group in slalom, where she will obviously be called to defend herself before the assault in super-g: "It is a source of great pride to compete in a World Championship on her home tracks - the words of Valtellinese through the FISI press office - The great regret is the absence of the public, we will certainly miss it. We will be ready to give everything, I feel fine and this season I have already managed to get on the podium in Crans-Montana, this has given me great confidence.
It is my fifth participation in a world championship and I arrive at the height of my competitive maturity, aiming for great goals ”.
Finally, Francesca Marsaglia, who will start just after thirty: “The fifth world championship on our snow gives me an extra boost. The combined will be a question mark, because this year they were removed from the World Cup calendar due to the situation linked to Covid and my slalom training was not very much, having focused above all on speed.
It is a format that I have faced with great commitment in my career and it represents an important test in view of the supergiant on Tuesday, given that the skiing on the track has been canceled. I absorbed the blow to the tibia remedied at the finish in St. Anton, I try to take as much as I can to get ready for the super-g ”.
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