The FIS Nordic Combined World Cup arrives in Italy [Val di Fiemme Presentation]

La Coppa del Mondo di combinata nordica sbarca in Italia [Presentazione Val di Fiemme]
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The FIS Nordic Combined World Cup arrives in Italy [Val di Fiemme Presentation]

Over the weekend the World Cup Nordic combined to & agrave; stop in Italy. In Val di Fiemme will go & agrave; stage the penultimate round of the season allungatasi than a week because of the whims of the weather.

It should not forget how the Trentino was supposed to host the final of the main circuit. However, the & rsquo; organization of Schonach, forced to raise the white flag on the weekend of 9-10 January because of & rsquo; no snow, requested and was granted to recover on 5 and 6 March his races. As a result the resort & agrave; German has effectively torn to the Italian l & rsquo; final round of & rsquo; winter, since & eacute; The timetable provided for the conclusion of the World Cup in Predazzo and Tesero Lake. Precisely for this reason the program of the stage thirty & egrave; It has been changed. In addition to & rsquo; interim sprint team Friday & igrave; there will be two gundersen with a jump and a 10 km cross-country. The original schedule was stipulated on Sunday a test day with two jumps and 15 km on the narrow skis reserved for the top 30 of the overall standings. This competition, understood as & ldquo; Finale & rdquo ;, andr & agrave; instead staged in Schonach. & Nbsp; HISTORY & Egrave; was the race of the World Cup in 1991 to mark the 'entrance to the Val di Fiemme between the resort & agrave; host top-level competitions. Since that time the Trentino & egrave; in and out continuously from the maximum circuit calendar, but & egrave; always remained in the "tour" of the World Cup, and has organized two editions of the World Championship event (2003 and 2013). So far in Val di Fiemme you have played 27 individual competitions of the first level, of which 22 are valid for the Crystal Ball. The pi & ugrave men; victorious of all are Ronny Ackermann and Hannu Manninen, capable of commanding 3 times. It goes to memorize options remarked how the Finnish successes have all arrived at the World Cup, while one of the three statements of German is an iridescent gold, won in 2003. Are 6 Combiners in activities & agrave; to boast success on the snow of Trentino. It is Bj & ouml; rn Kircheisen (2009), Magnus Moan (2009), Akito Watabe (2012), Eric Frenzel (World Championship gold in 2013), Bernhard Gruber (2015) and J ø rgen Graabak (2015). In terms of countries, the most & ugrave step; top of the podium seven different flags waved. Commanding Germany and Finland with 6 hits. Followed by Norway and Austria (4); Japan (3); France and United States (2). The Val di Fiemme & egrave; was theater, January 14, 1997, the first - and up all''avvento Alessandro Pittin only - podium in the history of the Italian Nordic combined. Andrea Longo squ memorize options second behind the Finn Samppa Lajunen getting what today & egrave; the only top-three blue on home snow. By way of curiosity & agrave; is remembered as January 10, 2010 is staged l & rsquo; only competition-climb in the history of Nordic combined. That day the bottom segment disput memorize options the Cermis and the race was won by the American Bill Demong ahead of compatriot Todd Lodwick and Frenzel. & Nbsp;
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