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Many top athletes left at the end of the 2019/2020 season, among men the farewell of Myhrer stood out, sailing just outside the world top 7.
Sunday 31 May 2020 4 minutes reading time
With the beginning of June and the various national teams that are making up for lost time, returning to the snow as Italy will do at the Stelvio, it should have ended with the withdrawal of Anna Veith, the list of athletes who have hanging your skis on the nail this spring.
What changes in terms of WCSL and therefore starting lists in view of the 2020/21 World Cup? Not very much, actually, even if in particular women have left high profile champions. Starting from Veith herself and Tina Weirather, already far enough away in the super-g rankings, while freeing up a couple of places useful for other athletes. In particular, however, two references will be missing such as Nina Haver-Loeseth and Christina Ackermann in the top 15 of slalom; the Norwegian is sixth in the ranking, the German is ninth, two gaps that will allow Irene Curtoni to have a little more margin to defend the second merit sub-group.
In addition to Hronek, Drev, Stalnacke and Rapaport, Italy has instead greeted three veterans who have written decidedly important pages in the last 15 years, namely Elena and Nadia Fanchini, who officialized the withdrawal together last month, and Hanna Schnarf who was unable to return after the Copper Mountain injury in November 2018.
On a male level, after the announcement of Peter Fill in Kitzbuehel, the biggest news came from Sweden, with the Scandinavians losing two references such as Andrè Myhrer, still 8th in the world in slalom, and Matts Olsson, who was just out of the top 20 in giant. Among the great nations, Lizeroux and Grange have decided to continue guaranteeing a fairly deep slalom team, where he left Robin Buffet, Austria will see Reichelt try again and lost only Johannes Kroell in speed, while Germany will have to roll up the sleeves with his youngsters, since in slalom he will no longer have Dopfer and Stehle, in addition to the sprinter Brandner and Staubitzer. Finally, Switzerland will no longer count on Elia Zurbriggen, like Canada on Dustin Cook and the United States on Wiley Maple.
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