Henrik Kristoffersen Cup overall? And '' too early unless you make giant steps away from ...

The slalom in Levi finally consecrated, in case it were needed, the talent of Henrik Kristoffersen between the posts tight. But there & rsquo; & egrave; PI & ugrave ;: the young Norwegian has launched a challenge to Marcel Hirscher for the victory in the World Cup overall declaring explicitly that & egrave; one of its objectives.

Monday 17 November 2014 7 minutes reading time

Ed & egrave; That's the main theme which, in our opinion, emerges from the weekend on the snow of the Arctic Circle in Finnish: l & rsquo; Kristoffersen of self-nomination for the crystal ball ugrave & pi; big. It & rsquo; a & rsquo; autocandidatura certainly fascinating but in our opinion a little & rsquo; premature. Henrik has shown it can go fast but also in giant between the posts wide, as shown by the & rsquo; output to S & ouml; SÃ¶lden three weeks ago, has not even remotely the same continuity & agrave; who among those tight. Moreover Kristoffersen not seem the least willing, at least for now, to try the speed disciplines, so & egrave; true that said Hirscher has shown over the years to win the Cup almost only with giant slalom. The problem & egrave; that Hirscher ce n & rsquo; & egrave; only one: his constancy in the podium in the races techniques is impressive, also, as already & agrave; said, Kristoffersen has yet to prove to be able to provide this kind of return. And then l & rsquo; Austrian forays in super-G if the grants, one of which earned him a crucial third place in the super combined Kitzb & uuml; hel last winter. Then, by the way, according to the yardstick of the Norwegian there would be another that might point to the overall standings by just giant slalom and & egrave; Felix Neureuther, but the German has jumped S & ouml; SÃ¶lden and his third place in Levi miraculous with a few days of training that has legs. In short, with Aksel Lund Svindal out of the game, with Ted Ligety going strong only in giant plus he also has laundry S & ouml; SÃ¶lden, with Alexis Pinturault that there is still a continuity & agrave; a true multi-purpose, with which Kristoffersen & egrave; still a & rsquo; incognita on two disciplines and Neureuther not at his best seems that the fourth consecutive World Cup should not escape Hirscher. Then, if you will Kristoffersen & agrave; able to surprise even giant Neureuther torner & agrave; at best and you put Pinturault & agrave; to make the phenomenon then the season will & agrave; definitely more & ugrave; funny how promises. The Women's World Cup instead finds, although not altogether if n & rsquo; was never gone, Tina Maze, which S & ouml; SÃ¶lden appeared packed and with his head completely from one & rsquo; the other hand, and instead on the Levi Black from Slovenia, taking advantage of the stick Mikaela Shiffrin, he pulled out all his class and especially his fierce determination and concentration of the beautiful days. If days like Saturday will be numerically superior to days like that of S & ouml; SÃ¶lden then to fight for the FIFA general, which theoretically protagonists sees a large number of champions, there will & agrave; even her, and how if there will & agrave ;. D & rsquo; moreover, such as its new coach Valerio Ghirardi, legs she has everything to go strong everywhere, the problem & egrave; connect the head to the legs. And Levi Tina us & egrave; failed. Signs of life come from the Italian teams slalom. Leaving aside Patrick Thaler, now a security from & rsquo; top of his 36 years, from time immemorial Manuela Moelgg, Giuliano Razzoli and Cristian Deville did not go cos & Igrave; well in goal articulated. For charity & agrave ;, nothing sensational, top placings from 15 to & ograve; important especially in the case of Manu and Cristian who had the highest numbers of departure. In fifteen us & egrave; Sarah Pardeller also arrived and with this performance now & egrave; difficult to leave out of the team, ditto Riccardo Tonetti, seventeenth and the best career result just like Sarah. But male and female athletes as Irene Curtoni, that giant has already & agrave; gave encouraging signs, Chiara Costazza and Stefano Gross, are absolutely recovered at a high level. The men's team needs to relaunch despite not having one of his top men, Manfred Moelgg, and has more & ugrave; his great coach Jacques Theolier, while the female has to finally get out of too many lean years.

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