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Only Hermann Maier in 2000, Michaela Dorfmeister in 2001, Stephan Eberharter in 2002, Anja P & auml; rson and Bode Miller in 2004, Lindsey Vonn in 2012 and Tina Maze in 2013 managed to win the giant seasonal S & ouml; Sölden and then , at the end of this season, also won the World Cup.
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Only three men of 16 races and only 4 women out of 17 races have thus triumphed over Rettenbach and then lifted in late winter crystal ball absolute. Even until 2004 c & rsquo; & egrave; was the one-two success in the Tyrolean glacier and General Cups. This time, after ten years, the goals could be repeated and the candidates to complete, given the two winners in the women's race, are even three.
We are only at the first race and there are still lots but Marcel Hirscher, since its main rival Aksel Lund Svindal & egrave; out of the game, Ted Ligety does not have the performance necessary to point to the big target in the other specialty & agrave; plus blew giant d & rsquo; s opening, and the consistency of performance of all specialties & agrave; Alexis Pinturault & egrave; waiting to be discovered, it is natural to think that Hirscher may have easy game to win the trophy. Yesterday he made the & hellip; Ligety scramble literally opponents with a force, a technique and a truly evil inhuman. Its continuity & agrave; we know: in the giant slalom and goes pretty much always on the podium with very few exceptions, if you will continue & agrave; to keep these levels do not see who can stop him from doing the poker straight overall, enterprise-level male non & egrave; never managed to anyone.
Pi & ugrave; Overall the speech in the women. Anna Fenninger and Mikaela Shiffrin have confirmed two girls built to win everything on the skis. L & rsquo; s & rsquo Austrian, has already & agrave; but that & egrave; appeared more & ugrave; technically and mentally focused and determined than ever, cos & igrave; as the young American who, now that he got his first victory in giant, has every reason to think the whole & rsquo; s World Cup overall optimism gi & agrave; by that & rsquo; s year. If Mikaela DOMINER & agrave; in technical disciplines and to & agrave; forays into speed & agrave; l & rsquo; Company & egrave; indeed possible, especially if your opponent (Fenninger, Tina Weirather, Lara Gut, who yesterday knocked the & rsquo; yet another opportunity to make serious points, Tina Maze and more & ugrave, forward the & rsquo; unknown Lindsey Vonn) as & egrave; natural that you take away points from each other.
Coming & Outdoors, Italy, the two giants of the S & ouml; Sölden brought us some shade, but also a lot of light especially in the women's field. We had written the day before they had to prove that the blue quests & rsquo; year to be strong and the first round & egrave; been very positive: applause fifth Federica Brignone one-tenth from the podium, the fourteenth Irene Curtoni virtually stalled for a year and a half with the & rsquo; except only two appearances in the competition in & rsquo; last winter, and the twenty-first of Martha Bassino, who in his first Cup race itself has confirmed all its potentialities & agrave ;. We expected more & ugrave; (And if she was waiting for him) by Nadia Fanchini but a ninth-place finish when a non & egrave; the best makes us more confident in the coming races. Too bad for Francesca Marsaglia (cos & igrave; cos & igrave;) and Manuela Mölgg (well) that have not closed the second round but especially for Nicole Agnelli and Karoline Pichler, remained out of the village for a short afternoon, Nicole even for a penny.
Among men a fantastic Davide Simoncelli at the turn of the 36 years (they Compir & agrave; on 30 January) hit a sixth place that says it all about his desire still high not to give up, to train and to compete with opponents and with his own ailments. Well Roberto Nani ninth committing so many mistakes, but especially Florian Eisath, thirteenth, he just on the Rettenbach two years ago in a completely different weather conditions from clear skies Sunday & ograve conquered; an eleventh place & egrave; still one of his two best results of his career. Signs of recovery by Giovanni Borsotti, rather unfortunate Luca De Aliprandini, run-down & rsquo; s influence, but for a round and a half at the level of the top ten until & egrave; finished off. Now there will be slalom in Levi, with regard to the overall cup Hirscher and Shiffrin can proceed to sea, while back at home, expect some signs of recovery from slalom and, among women, un''altra good performance of Irene Curtoni and a ring of Chiara Costazza.
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