Shiffrin, the United States' flagship towards the World Cup: here is the first official selection for Cortina 2021

US Ski Team has formalized the squad for the world championship: many newcomers and luxury injuries, there will be 9 women and 9 men available with Ted Ligety ready for another world adventure.

Wednesday 27 January 2021 5 minutes reading time

A young team with two very champions who together count ten world golds, equally divided. Here is the United States for Cortina 2021, the first official high-level selection for the world championships starting on February 8th with the women's alpine combined that will open the competition program. A list, the stars and stripes, which includes 21 athletes, but in reality there will be 18 available to the technical staff to compete in the various scheduled races. Ryan Cochran-Siegle's presence is defined as unlikely, also because the Vermont native returned to the States for further checks after the fall of Kitzbuehel and it is estimated that at least a month's stop will be necessary to recover from the cervical fracture suffered on the Streif. Tommy Ford and Keely Cashman, whose season ended due to their respective injuries, had also met the requirements for the championship pass, while long-term resident Steven Nyman should also be remembered, who will try to return to the Olympic year. Nine then the girls chosen, with Mikaela Shiffrin clearly the absolute star of the team and probably at the start of four races, from combined to super-g (reigning champion in the second case) in the first two days, up to giant and slalom at the end of the World Championship , with the title among the tight posts that has been in the hands of the 25-year-old from Colorado for four consecutive editions. She will also focus strongly on Breezy Johnson in the downhill, she already four times on the third step of the podium in five seasonal races, and there are good certainties in technical disciplines such as Nina O''Brien and Paula Moltzan, who could do very well in parallel too ( 2nd in Lech / Zuers in the cup, his first and so far only podium). Two years after Are's serious injury, veteran Laurenne Ross will also return to a World Cup, expected in the downhill and super-g together with Jacqueline Wiles and Isabella Wright, debutant in a world championship as AJ Hurt and Katie Hensien. The nine men who will play for the medals will instead be Ted Ligety, who took home 5 world gold medals as Shiffrin (three consecutive times in giant, from 2011 to 2015, as well as combined and super-g in the triumphal event of Schladming 2013 ), a trio of quality in speed like the one composed by Travis Ganong, silver downhill at Beaver Creek 2015, Bryce Bennett and Jared Goldberg. Five newcomers and all in technical disciplines: River Radamus, world champion at jr level in Val di Fassa 2019, in addition to the giant we will probably also see him in super-g, then here are the slalomists Luke Winters, Ben Ritchie, Jett Seymour and Alex Leever , who just yesterday scored his first points in the World Cup in Schladming.

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