World Ski Championships: Innerhofer the best in the downhill test

Christof first in the second descent ahead of Sunday’s race. Behind the blue Crawford at 31/100 and Monney at 34/100. And Paris has the fifth time

From our correspondent Paolo Marabini

February 10th
– MERIBEL (Fra)

Good news for the Azzurri also from the second round of the men’s downhill, which will award the medals on Sunday in Courchevel on the Eclipse slope. Although the times in practice must always be taken with a grain of salt, Christof Innerhofer was the fastest of all, leaving the Canadian James Crawford, yesterday’s super-G gold, at 31/100 and the Swiss Alexis Monney at 34.

Domme is there too!

Dominik Paris also did well, who evidently absorbed the big blow to the right thigh remedied in the fall in super-G: fifth time for the blue speed leader, 48/100 from Innerhofer, with Florian Schieder sixth, 4 cents further behind. However, some big names such as Kilde, Odermatt, Kriechmayr and Hemetsberger did not start.

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