Hector aims for Sweden for Semmering, Lysdahl returns to the giant and makes his debut for a very young player in Switzerland

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The choices of some of the main national teams in view of the post-Christmas CdM races: Pinturault will be in the match in Bormio, where there will be the last of Feuz on the Stelvio.

Friday 23 December 2022 7 minutes reading time

Last pre-Christmas workouts today for many World Cup athletes, who won't even have time to digest the panettone since, on Christmas day, it will be time to travel towards Bormio and Semmering. On Monday 26 December the men will already be engaged in the first of the two tests towards the descent of 28 on the "Stelvio", on Tuesday 27 here is instead the first race of the women's triptych of Semmering, with double giant slalom that also winks at Sara Hector, called to look for the first success of the season after the two podiums in Killington (third) and Sestriere (second), she who is the first follower of Marta Bassino in the specialty classification. The Olympic champion leads Sweden, which has formalized the summoning of nine athletes for the challenges on the "Panorama": in giant, in addition to Hector who concluded his last training block in Val di Fassa, we will see Hanna Aronsson Elfman, Estelle Alphand , Hilma Loevblom and Lisa Nyberg. Only slalom, in addition to Hector and Aronsson Elfman who will double, for Anna Swenn Larsson, Cornelia Oehlund, born in 2005 now on a permanent basis in the CdM group, Moa Boestroem Mussener who did very well in the two European Cup races in Valle Aurina, and the return in the maximum circuit of Emelie Henning. France will field five athletes in giant slalom and as many: for the two races between the wide doors, Tessa Worley, Clara Direz, Romane Miradoli, Coralie Frasse-Sombet and Doriane Escane will be on the track. The latter will be the only one to complete the triptych, showing up at the starting gate of the slalom together with Nastasia Noens, Marie Lamure, Chiara Pogneaux and Clarisse Breche. In Bormio, there will be ten transalpines who will face the Stelvio: we will see Alexis Pinturault in speed again, who had missed the appointment in Val Gardena but aims to do well in a technical super-g like the one in Valtellina. With the winner of the 2021 cup, here is Clarey, 2nd on the Saslong last Saturday, Theaux (great 4th), Sarrazin (who signed the most beautiful descent of his career finishing 6th), Allegre, Bailet, Schuller, Giezendanner, Muzaton and the young Fresquet. As many as thirteen Swiss, with internal selection during the tests: Beat Feuz will face Bormio for the last time, with Marco Odermatt who will go in search of his first success here, he who was second only in Paris in the downhill a year ago. With the two champions, we will see Hintermann, Rogentin, Gino Caviezel (brother Mauro still out), Kryenbuehl, Meillard, Chabloz, Murisier, Mettler, Monney, Roesti and Roulin, who found the podium again in the European Cup in Sankt Moritz. In Semmering, on the other hand, Lara Gut-Behrami will be the red cross point of reference for the giants: with the Ticino-born Holdener, Gisin, Rast, Ellenberger, Wild, Haerri, Kasper, a Corinne Suter who returns to compete in a race between the wide doors and an absolute debutant, the talent born in 2004 Stefanie Grob already in splendid light at the European Cup level. For the slalom, seven Swiss women starting with Holdener (red bib shared with Shiffrin), Gisin, who won her only race in CdM two years ago right on the Panorama, Rast, Danioth, Meillard, Good and Stoffel. Finally Norway, with an important novelty in giant slalom in Semmering, given that Kristin Lysdahl finds this specialty after returning to slalom, one year after the crusader crash. With her Mowinckel, a true point of view in the discipline, Fuerst Holtmann, Stjernesund and Tviberg. Except Mowinckel, they will all do the slalom too. Classic quartet for the Scandinavians in Bormio: together with the absolute leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, red bib in downhill and super-g, Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, Markus Nordgaard Fossland and Henrik Roea.

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