Tuesday 11 February Female combined, Wednesday 12 men’s race at the Saalbach World Cup: regulation, timetables and favorites
The second week of the Ski World Championships in Saalbach (Austria) begins: the speed races are finished, two days dedicated to the new event wanted by the international federation, the combined team, is coming. The women’s race on Tuesday 11 February, Wednesday 12 The men’s test: Descent Manche at 10, Manche di Slalom at 13.15. Italy will host three couples in the combined with female teams and four couples in the male team combined.
team combined
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The formula is the same for the world cup Superombinata, the difference is that you compete in couples: therefore one member of the team carries out the descent, the other member competes in slalom. The couple who realizes the lowest overall time wins. At the end of the morning descent, the starting order of the afternoon slalom is established by reversing the times from the thirtieth to the first (or from the last to the first if there are less than thirty participating couples, as in the case of the women’s race).
Combined women, Italy and favorites
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The national team of Italy for the women’s team combined on 11 February will be made up of three couples. Elena Curtoni (downhill with pectoral 3) -Martina Peterlini; Nicol Delago (descent with pectoral 5) -Marta Rossetti; Laura Pirovano (downhill with 6) -Giorgia Collomb, the latter back from gold in the team parallel. The tracks were entrusted to the Italian technicians Alberto Senigliese (descent) and Roberto Lorenzi (slalom), but for the blues there are no many chances of medal. Among the favorites, the Swiss Gut-Holdener and Suter-Rast couples, the Austrian Puchner-Liensberger, the American Johnson-Shiffrin. Outsider? Austria also shows Venier-Cuping, the US play the Jolly Macuga-Moltzan. In the American house there was a little of the Maretta for Shiffrin’s decision not to compete with Lindsey Vonn, who did not hide his “disappointment for how the thing was managed”. Lindsey would have liked to compete with Shiffrin – grappling with a delicate mental situation that pushed her to the giant flat rate – to form a stars and stripes Dream Team, but the American technical leaders (on which Mikaela obviously has a certain ascendant .. .) They decided to put together the two strongest of each specialty, with Shiprin Slalomista after Johnson, a worldwide discharge world.
Combined men, Italy and favorites
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There will be four blue couples for the combined men of men on Wednesday 12 February. The DT Max Carca has made official the teams: Dominik Paris-Aalx Vinatzer (already gold in the team parallel), Florian Schiender-Tobias Kastlunger, Mattia Cassano Gross and Christof Innerhofer-Filippo della Vite (team of the team parallel too) . Formula identical to the female one, Paris-Vinatzer can aim for a medal while the casso-gross couple can become a loose threatening with the formula of dry heat in slalom. To challenge there will be very tough couples, starting from Austria with Kriechmayr-Feller.
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