Pinturault: "It is important to be at the front in this situation". Gut-Behrami: "Unbalanced calendar"

The French cup leader is already thinking about tomorrow's super-g, the Ticino-born admits. "Today it was impossible to make the descent, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that it would be fair to have the same number of races for each discipline".

Wednesday 17 March 2021 4 minutes reading time

Different visions, as it is obvious that it is in such a situation, when a canceled descent can favor on the one hand an athlete like Alexis Pinturault, in the distance comparison with Marco Odermatt, while on the other it risks putting an end to it. to the dream of an encore in the general, after the 2016 triumph, for Lara Gut-Behrami. And so from Lenzerheide come the voices of the Frenchman, leader of the general with three races to go with only 31 points over his direct rival, released at Ski Chrono. "I had planned to run the test for the downhill and potentially the race itself - explains Alexis - We don't know what the track will be like for tomorrow's super-g, I hope we can have a good race and, considering that the girls will start before us, conditions should be ok. The descent canceled? It is part of our sport, two have jumped considering Saalbach and I do not forget (thinking of last year's joke, when the cancellation of all the last races took away the chance of overtaking Kilde from the transalpine, ed) that it is important to always stay ahead in Ranking". And pay attention because in 2014 Pinturault obtained his only victory in a CdM super-g in Lenzerheide ... Lara Gut-Behrami, interviewed by RSI Sport, also spoke about what happened today: "There is regret, because in the end we are athletes and we want to compete, but objectively today it was impossible to compete in the descent - said the native of Comano - Then we can open the discussion on the regulation, being a sport that depends so much on time; maybe providing a spare day would not be senseless. Just as it would be worth talking about the fact that there are not the same number of races in all disciplines - adds Lara - Give advice to the FIS? I don't think it takes a genius to understand that in a World Cup it would be right to have the same number of races for all disciplines. In the project for next year there are 5 super-gs and 9 slaloms: it doesn't seem very correct ”.

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