Alpine SkiingSt. Moritz 2017
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It '' was recently made official the start list of the downhill tomorrow that will award the second men's champion title at the World Championships in St. Moritz.
Friday 10 February 2017 7 minutes reading time
The first athlete to shoot from the starting gate will be the 'Austrian Matthias Mayer Olympic champion that will be the "forerunner" to the other 56 members to the World Championship event. The late start time of the race and the new regulation which determines the composition of the start list giving the opportunity to the top 10 of the WCSL ranking to choose the odd chest between the '1 and 19 has prompted some of the big discipline to opt for the high numbers.
Therefore tomorrow we can attend an uncertain competition where top-up the strategic component associated with the luck factor will affect the final result.
The first of the favorites to take the start will be with bib number 2 Norway Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, unconvincing quest''anno downhill in the World Cup, but in the Scandinavian superg Wednesday seemed very at ease on the track in Sankt Moritz and the fourth in just 3 cents from the bronze medal tomorrow could give him an additional charge to capture its first metal in a great appointment.
Pectoral 3 for 'eveltico Carlo Janka who will use the race tomorrow as another rehearsal for the Alpine combined, where you will surely be among the protagonists. 4 in the 'Austrian Max Franz winner of the free Val Gardena surprise, which will precede the' American Travis Ganong (5) and German Andreas Sander (6).
Careful Beat Feuz which will start with bib number 7, the Swiss knows better than anyone else every single centimeter of the Corviglia in St. Moritz and in testing has gone very strong, immediately after him will be the turn French dell''esperto Fayed (8) and first blues Peter Fill (9) current leader of the specialty ranking and one of the favorites for success.
Number 10 Patrick Kueng that before the public friend will dearly before giving the field the title of world champion. The second decade of big will be inaugurated by the Canadian Erik Guay (11) fresh from the 'gold medal in the super-G that pressure relief could again point to the coup, to follow will be the turn of Johan Clarey (12), veteran Hannes Reichelt ( 13) and the Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis (14).
Choose 15 instead Dominik Paris evidently consulted the weather forecast, risking a rather high bib groped for the 'assault on his second medal of the world championship career.
The 'blue that like Fill and Jansrud is among the favorites for the podium, a number will precede the coming of the Slovenian Kline (16), then it will be the turn of Adrien Theaux (17) and dell''americano Bryce Bennett ( 18).
It will start with bib number 19, the highest possible big, Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud that after the 'silver in superg Wednesday will point to the most precious metal in the speed discipline par excellence. The start list of the best will be completed with the number dall''austriaco Vincent Kriechmayr 20.Tra other athletes to take into strong consideration are: French Brice Roger (23), the Slovenian Klemen Kosi (26), the third and last Italian in the race Mattia Casse (28) and Switzerland's Mauro Caviezel (29) .As mentioned earlier, the downhill world championship will start at 12.00 am tomorrow.
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