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Fresh snow and wind also ruined practice scheduled for Tuesday. Now they should increase before the race.
With one race lost for the men (downhill) and two for the women (a giant slalom and a super-G), the Alpine Skiing World Cup wintered relatively well. However, in this week’s final in Lenzerheide, Wednesday’s races are in great danger. Swiss Beat Feuz and Italian Sofia Goggia lead the discipline scores. With 68 points behind, Matthias Mayer needs a “perfect” run and has to wait for mistakes from the opponent.
The rule is that if a race in the World Cup final cannot take place on the scheduled date, it will be canceled without replacement. The organizers hope that after training sessions on Monday and Tuesday, which were canceled due to weather and track conditions, they will now be able to hold a training session on Wednesday morning and then run the descents. The procedure is clarified at the evening team captains meetings. With a view to the big balls, the Swiss are very keen on the descents to occur.
In the event of cancellation, Feuz should be happy with his fourth relegation crystal, but heading into the World Cup overall, Marco Odermatt would need the race to turn the current 31 points behind Alexis Pinturault of France into an advantage. But Mayer is also hoping to get a chance to take home Austria’s first relegation ball since Klaus Kröll in 2012. “It’s a good deficit on the upwind. It becomes very difficult when there’s a race to catch up. I don’t think the upwind I made so many mistakes. And everything has to fit perfectly for me, “said the ÖSV -Speed Driver.
Mayer: “It will be a short matter”
If the downhill track is race-ready and the weather cooperates, it will probably drift away from the reserve start. “That will be something short, something close in terms of time span, so a lot is possible. Everyone will be smart about it,” says the double Olympic champion. However, your instincts are not so positive when you look at the foggy and snowy weather forecast. “I still have to adjust.” I did not know anything about the condition of the tracks because the coaches were not authorized on the track either. “It won’t be icy,” Mayer joked.
On Thursday, which is also expected to be difficult from a meteorological point of view, the Super-Gs are on the program, world champion Vincent Kriechmayr starts from pole position 83 points ahead of Odermatt. “A cancellation would make it easier as far as the fight is concerned, but I definitely don’t want that. I want to drive a race, a safe one, a fair one. It was not an easy schedule with the pandemic, but I think we have a lot. We were lucky to have it. that we had so many races, but we would be happy two more races, “said Upper Austria.
In the women’s descent, the four-time winner of the season Goggia from Italy wants to make her comeback after breaking her injury and prevent the crystal from being snatched by the Swiss Corinne Suter (70 points back) or Lara Gut-Behrami (97) . Gut-Behrami, meanwhile, would need the race to put Petra Vlhova in the World Cup overall. The Slovak traveled to Lenzerheide with a 96-point lead.
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