Lech / Zuers parallels at risk of snow and ... participation: everyone is already thinking of Levi, Killington and Lake Louise

On November 13-14, the World Cup will resume in Arlberg, even if there is some doubt about the preparation of the track. The choices of the big and home Italians: Goggia and Brignone to the States, Bassino will have to decide whether to compete in the slalom in Finland.

Wednesday 27 October 2021 5 minutes reading time

A little less than three weeks and it will still be Austria to host the maximum circuit, given that after the opening in Soelden, the CdM will arrive in Lech / Zuers for the only parallel (both for women and men ) of the season, with the exception of those who will award the Olympic titles in Beijing. You should compete in the Arlberg area, next 13-14 November (the women engaged on Saturday, with the qualifying phase at 10.00 in the morning and the finals from 17.00, the men on Sunday with the finals however at 16.00), because it is good to use even the conditional since the snow at the Flexen Arena is very difficult with the temperatures of the last few days. Some doubts exist, even if there is still time before the FIS snow check scheduled for next week, but unlike 2020, when the races were moved forward by almost two weeks due to the lack of snow, this time there is no they will be exceptions. The calendar, in fact, immediately foresees the women's slalom of Levi the following weekend (20-21 November), with the girls then engaged in the States, with the technical races of Killington (27-28 of the month), while the men will fly in Canada for the opening of the speed with the Lake Louise triptych from 26 to 28. Last year in Lech / Zuers (where the public will return, 3000 tickets on sale) won those who at the end of the season then raised the general Cup to the sky in Lenzerheide, namely Petra Vlhova and Alexis Pinturault. A race that has already been criticized by many, also considering that it will be the only one on the circuit and with a format that is not convincing (see Cortina 2021), and which also risks a decidedly reduced participation by the big names. At the male level, in reality there will be the majority of slalomists and gigantists who will not be engaged until the weekend of 11-12 December in Val d''Isère, since in Beaver Creek, we remember, this' 'year there will be three fast races instead of the classic giant to close. The Swiss, with the same president Urs Lehmann who expressed himself negatively on this test (after Justin Murisier's words of the previous days), may not have the cup leader Marco Odermatt, who aims to better prepare the two triptychs in North America , certainly we will not see Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who will leave early for training in the States, as well as the Italian sprinters. At the female level, on the other hand, we should see almost all the expected protagonists: think of Shiffrin, Vlhova, Liensberger, Gut-Behrami, who will then go directly to Levi (obviously not the Ticinese, then committed to Killington), but also Marta Bassino, champion of the world of specialties ex aequo with the same Liensberger, who has yet to dissolve the reservation on the presence in the weekend following the two Finnish slaloms. More yes than no, however. Goggia and Brignone? The focus for them is on the North American races, also because they have to recover the work lost in speed by skipping the trip to Argentina last September.

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