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Last Saturday we rightly emphasized the great results obtained by the Italian girls, seven of our representatives in the first sixteen of a giant women's World Cup there had never been.
Monday 30 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
However, despite being very happy with the performance of our athletes, they deserve this and more, we have also warned against too many expectations for Sochi: Olympic track of the female giant is easier than that of Lienz, but above all there are high chances that the snow is completely different from that found in the last resort in Tyrol.
Definitely the most positive thing was the attitude of the girls on the track, always on the attack from beginning to end, and we must say that Livy Gizzards and his coaching staff are doing a great job in this regard. Sure, we'd love to see more of these beautiful collective results, perhaps with some podium finish, even on easy slopes and soft snow ... but always in our house is privileged, in particular so for the technical disciplines, preparation on steep slopes and icy, or throw themselves into the World Cup athletes and athletes who have the characteristics to do well on hard and especially on steep slopes.
The right attitude there was also by Chiara Costazza and the other that, even with starting numbers impossible, took to the track in the slalom the next day, however, the passage of "Kiki" from the thirty-sixth place 3 & rdquo , 71 by Bernadette Schild in the first round of Courchevel, a little longer than 50 seconds, the seventh of Lienz in a second and a half from the poor most successful slalom skier of all time, Marlies Schild, in a race by almost two minutes, would be terribly difficult to explain except by the fact that, indeed, the thirty prefers the hard ground and a particularly demanding track like that of Lienz where he won his only race of the World Cup in 2007.
The refrain of the technicians is that you have to go fast on all surfaces and on all types of snow. Very true, but also the time dell'Italjet in the first 26 seconds of the men's downhill in Bormio yesterday, snow hard and certainly not on a ground that in those 26 seconds did not present difficulties because the jump of the Rock shortly after departure has been done, is not encouraging.
Christof Innerhofer, at the end of the sixth thanks to a great performance in the final stretch more technical and very good physical condition, scored the fifty-seventh time to the first intermediate with already 54 cents behind the winner, Aksel Lund Svindal who are frankly too many how to recover from a Norwegian, Peter Fill won the fifty-second time, the fifty-eighth Mattia Casse, the sixty-Werner Heel, Matteo Marsaglia the sixty-fourth.
Easy to think that, with the positions so backward at the top, there's also been an issue of materials as well as to adapt to the snow. They have limited the damage only Silvano Varettoni, twenty-first, which then went strong to the end, closing the ninth, Siegmar Klotz, twenty-third, and Paul Pangrazzi, twenty-fifth. In Sochi the downhill track is beautiful and challenging but if the snow is not likely to be lasting pain ... on the slopes coaster, as he did in the slalom in Vancouver Giuliano Razzoli, one of the few that is good on snow easy, there will be , from ski run and you can not be sure on the edges ...
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