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The weekend's inaugural World Cup in Sölden 2013-2014 gave answers that were expected from favorites in the men's field, the likely first step towards the final leap so far only a great champion and has shown potential too many difficulties in our teams and bounds. The men's race report! The report of the women's race!
Monday 28 October 2013 8 minutes reading time
Given that Sölden is only a prologue to the real season starts in late November and that many may still be back with the preparation or burdened by loads of work, not to mention the large number of male and female athletes who return from injury (in By the way, welcome back to Bode Miller, the nineteenth), and therefore the results can not be taken at face value, we begin the second part of the weekend, the men's giant yesterday.
The three big favorites, Ted Ligety and Marcel Hirscher Alexis Pinturault, have complied with the provisions of almost all of the experts who had predicted on the podium on the Rettenbach, more precisely, with Ligety first and Pinturault Hirscher and to fight for the square d'' honor. So it was, and now we're curious to see what he does Ligety in Levi'' given that this year he has trained in slalom at large to return to the podiums between the narrow poles in the early years of his career. If it is so then Hirscher will have its great pains to defend the World Cup and the Austrian'' must also take into account the signal arrivatogli from Aksel Lund Svindal, fourth on a track where, apart from the victory of 2007, not had never picked up anything good.
'' It was amazing the performance of the French team who placed five representatives in the top ten (and six in the first eleven!). After very long lean years as a result of sudden self-destruction'' after the games in Sapporo in 1972 of the legendary Equipe de France sixties and seventies Les Bleus have slowly found some good athletes in giant and now also have a phenomenon like Pinturault but five not in the ten militants planting them by the giant home in Val-d'' Isère of 12 December 1968, when they were even seven.
In the female giant on Saturday Lara Gut (pictured moved to the finish line) has finally showed everything is potentially capable and all you fans and insiders expect from her for years now. The victory of the 22-year Ticino Comano was definitely the sharpest of the four who got in his career and the fact that it came in a giant specialty in which he had obtained "only" two third places, it is a significant signal. They are now to be tested the progress of Lara in the speed disciplines, which in theory are "his" disciplines.
But, in fact, all'' true beginning of the season is still missing more than a month and the others have all the time to fill the gap and respond to'' acute Lara, all of Lindsey Vonn, who missed Sölden is already training very strong in America, and Tina Maze, these days too distracted by commitments and awards such as the Skieur d'' Or and Lange Icon to be sufficiently focused on the race. A curiosity: in the past only among women who won four times on the Rettenbach went on to win the World Cup but two of these occurred in the last two seasons, with Vonn in 2011 and in 2012 Maze ...
Chapter Italy. Sölden has never been a place too favorable to the blues especially for men who have picked up two second places and nine placings from fourth to tenth in 15 games while women have achieved a victory, with Denise Karbon in 2007, a second, three third places and ten placings between the fourth and the tenth in 16 races. However, only two years ago had happened that neither men nor women had a placing among the top ten even though the reality Federica Brignone ended up leading the first moto and then leave almost immediately in the second: Manfred Moelgg was seventeenth and nineteenth Curtoni Irene. A ended in seven points, two women and five men, compared to six of this year'', three men and three women, Nadia Fanchini was fourteenth and seventeenth Max Blardone.
The reasons for this slow start are most evident among women: almost all return from injury and it was difficult for them to be at their best right now. Livio Gizzards admitted that there is still a lot of work'' and c'' is to be hoped that in December, when they will be five giants, the condition and the results are a little better''. Same thing, injuries aside, for the men who just can not digest this slope above the final plan.
Manfred Moelgg with few days of training because of back pain could not repeat the second of twelve months ago and he was already a success to be at the gate, some had admitted he is not yet at its best, others have complained that the team was'' the only one not to train on the Rettenbach in previous days. But the final word puts Claudio Ravetto, one that traditionally does not mince his words: work, work and more work, and the final plan should not be an excuse because kids have to adapt to all situations of weather and snow view of Sochi. C'' is plenty of time to get back on top.
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