Beijing 2022, here are the superpowers: Switzerland with 22 athletes, Austria renounces Brennsteiner

Alpine Skiing: All news

Beijing 2022: All news

The convocations of the two reference nations are official: maximum contingent for the rossocrociati, from Feuz to Odermatt up to the trio Gisin, Holdener and Gut-Behrami. Wunderteam with only 9 men (and the sacrificed giant) and the two Olympic champion Matthias Mayer, together with Kriechmayr and Feller, point of reference.

Monday 24 January 2022 6 minutes reading time

Here are the superpowers for Beijing 2022, hoping that Italy can join them in the fight for the medal table of alpine skiing. Switzerland and Austria have announced the names of the athletes who will participate in the next Olympic Games, with important numbers in terms of contingent (unlike the Azzurri, for example) that allow you to make certainly less painful choices, even if there are some important exclusions. '' is. Let's start with the rossocrociato team, the only one with the maximum number of elements both for women and men (11 for each sector). In the first case, champions such as Lara Gut-Behrami, Michelle Gisin (gold at PyeongChang combined) and Wendy Holdener lead, all medalists at the Games, but there are also important possibilities for Corinne Suter who, in speed, will also have Jasmine at her side Flury, Priska Nufer, Joana Haehlen and the young Noemie Kolly (with some necessary exclusions, between super-g and after the downhill tests). Attention in the technical disciplines to the enormous quality of Camille Rast, who will compete in slalom, where there will also be Aline Danioth, and giant with Andrea Ellenberger herself called up for the test between the wide doors. The men's team counts on two champions of the caliber of Beat Feuz, in search of his first Olympic gold, and Marco Odermatt, who will aim for medals from the descent to the giant (and perhaps also in combined ...). In speed there are also Niels Hintermann and Stefan Rogentin, constant and at a high level since the beginning of the season, with a chance granted to Yannick Chabloz. Multi-purpose elements such as Loic Meillard, Gino Caviezel and Justin Murisier will be able to do very well in combined, in addition to the giant, with Meillard who will then also aim for the slalom where we will see Daniel Yule, Ramon Zenhaeusern and Luca Aerni, with the sacrifice of Tanguy Nef who remains at home. Twenty athletes from Austria, however, with 11 women (maximum number despite zero victories in the season, but the admission system as we know is based on other parameters) led by world champion Katharina Liensberger. With the 24-year-old from Vorarlberg, here in the giant Stephanie Brunner and Katharina Truppe certain of the place, in the slalom Katharina Huber and the Olympic bronze in charge, Katharina Gallhuber will be added. On the other hand, six sprinters have been called up: they go from Ramona Siebenhofer to Tamara Tippler, from Mirjam Puchner to Ariane Raedler (all athletes climbed on the podium this season), with the "bets" Christine Scheyer and Cornelia Huetter, tormented by injuries but back to a good level and they will have their five-circle chance. Only nine men of the Wunderteam, and therefore important athletes such as Stefan Brennsteiner, in fact the best Austrian gigantist in the second part of last season, and the slalomist Fabio Gstrein were excluded. The reference points are Matthias Mayer, Olympic gold medalist in Sochi downhill and in PyeongChang in super-g, and Vincent Kriechmayr, ready for the two speed races like Daniel Hemetsberger and Otmar Striedinger, but also Raphael Haaser who, thanks to the podium in Bormio , he tore the pass to play in the Olympic super-g. Marco Schwarz, from the giant to the slalom up to the combined, will aim for more medals even if the condition that the Carinthian has not shown up to now after the injury at the beginning of the season will be needed; Manuel Feller will aim straight for giant and slalom, Michael Matt and Johannes Strolz, 4th and 5th in the last Kitz slalom (with the son of art who won in Adelboden), will be two of the four standard bearers for the race between the narrow poles, alongside Schwarz and Feller themselves.

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