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With only one race lost for the men (Wengen downhill) and two for the women (one giant slalom apiece and one Super G), the Alpine Skiing World Cup had a relatively good run through the Corona winter. 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 race and, if he can drive, he must expect 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. Backtracking is no longer possible (for example, instead of Friday’s team competition). 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 do one practice every Wednesday morning and then do both races. The exact procedure should be clarified in the evening team captains meetings.
With a view to the big balls, the Swiss are very keen on the descents to occur: if Feuz is to be happy with his fourth relegation crystal, with a view to the overall World Cup, Marco Odermatt urgently needs the race, currently around 31 points French Alexis Pinturault’s deficit could turn into an advantage.
Kriechmayr wants a sports decision in the Super G.
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 in pace. It becomes very difficult when there is a race to catch up. I don’t think the rhythm makes so many mistakes. And everything has to fit perfectly with me, “said the two-time Olympic champion. . If the downhill track is race-ready and the weather plays the game, it will probably be driven from the reserve start.
On Thursday, which is also expected to be tough in terms of weather, 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. have so many races. But we would all be happy two more races, “said the Mühlviertel man.
In the case of women, 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). So Goggia wouldn’t be unhappy if the weather prevented a race. Gut-Behrami, for his part, urgently needs the race to put Petra Vlhova in the World Cup overall. The Slovak traveled to Lenzerheide with a 96-point lead.(May / what)
