The scoreboard of the useless team event on Friday in Lenzerheide: Italy-Germany rematch after the World Cup

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Only nine nations entered for a race that will not even serve in terms of the ranking by nations, already decided with Switzerland ahead of Austria and Italy. The Azzurri, with De Aliprandini, Borsotti, Delago and the newcomer Mathiou, will see the quarterfinals with the Germans (among the favorites): appointment at 12.00.

Thursday 18 March 2021 4 minutes reading time

A completely useless appointment for the purposes of this World Cup season, and also helped by the weather which, after four hellish days, will leave “space” for the team event on Friday (scheduled to start at 12.00). The Lenzerheide finals will therefore begin with a team event that counts in terms of the ranking by nations, but in fact already decided with Switzerland which has over 1000 points ahead of Austria, for the second consecutive success after the historic one of last season. , and Italy third with a good margin over France. Not surprisingly, only nine nations are registered and the same transalpine team, as it did at the world championships in Cortina, has decided not to line up at the start: a signal for the future? It would not be bad... The top seed is Switzerland, which will not have its strikers Loic Meillard and Wendy Holdener (who are already thinking about the giant and the slalom on Saturday), in the quarter-finals against the winner of the only eighth will dispute, the one between Sweden and Great Britain. In the upper part of the board there is then the clash between the United States and Norway, with the Scandinavians presenting a formation similar to the one that led them to the world title in Cortina, in the lower part there is instead Slovenia-Austria and the revenge between Italy and Germany . The Azzurri, in fact, had lost in the quarter-finals of the world championship team event against the Germans (after having beaten them two years earlier in the final for the bronze in Are) and also tomorrow many of the protagonists of that day in Cortina will be the same. In Italy there will be Luca De Aliprandini, Giovanni Borsotti, Nadia Delago and the newcomer Sophie Mathiou, who will play her first “real” World Cup race on Saturday in slalom; Germany, on the other hand, will have Duerr and Filser among the girls and Alexander Schmid and Strasser in the men's field, practically like in Cortina. The Germans could be among the favorites for the final success, for what will count here in Lenzerheide ... CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST CLICK HERE FOR THE BOARD Quarter-final pairings: Switzerland-winner Sweden-Great Britain, United States-Norway, Italy-Germany, Slovenia-Austria.

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