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After several delays, it is clear: the women’s super-G cannot be contested on Tuesday and the top seed has to be patient.
The fog soup prevented the Super G Women’s World Cup in Cortina.
Photo: Michael Kappeler (Keystone / dpa)
It’s just not meant to be this way – there won’t be a race at Cortina d’Ampezzo on day two of the World Cup either. After the combination of women on Monday and the men’s super-G on Tuesday had to be postponed, the women’s super-G will also not be contested.
The race was originally supposed to take place in the morning, but then moved on to the afternoon. It presented a strange picture: warm temperatures and sun at the end, thick fog at the beginning that didn’t clear.
The postponement date is not yet clear
45 minutes after the scheduled start, the organizers decided to lower it. I do not help. After the athletes stood at the start for a total of an hour and a half and waited, the interruption came. As of Tuesday afternoon, not one of the three scheduled races was held.
It is also bitter for Swiss women, after all, Lara Gut-Behrami led the competition to the ground in recent weeks, dominated the discipline and was the first contender for the gold medal. It should have started with the number 7. Now you have to be patient, it is not yet clear when the race will be rescheduled. After all, the weather should improve in the next few days.
There is a cancellation, no more races are possible today. The women’s Super-G must be postponed due to fog.
White, white, white. Fog still dominates the upper section of the slope at Cortina. It doesn’t look good for this race today.
On the radio you have just heard on SRF that the departure will be postponed again at 2.30 pm. And if it doesn’t work, then this Super-G should be canceled.
After an hour and a half of waiting, that would be understandable, because at some point it will be dark in Cortina. But it’s still a shame, then the race would be postponed. And with it the golden mission of Lara Gut-Behrami in the World Cup.
The starting gate is up, the athletes are arriving, but the fog will not leave us.
Even in the new beginning there is still a thick fog, 2:10 pm is the new lucky number. Excuse me, lucky time.
Now those responsible have decided. The start will be postponed to the downside, and should start at 2pm. This does not significantly shorten the race, but the pace is slower at the start. Who can better cope with these conditions and this delay? We’ll see in 14 minutes.
Swiss Ski President Urs Lehmann can have a little chat about SRF. And he has how confident he traveled to this World Cup. Happy Cheib, he thought. Because this year Switzerland has a chance of a medal in all disciplines.
We hope that Swiss women will get precious metals for the first time today. If it can be started. Fog generally drifts upward, but the pace is modest.
Half an hour has passed, but the fog persists. Even if Swiss women persist in the race today, we can still expect something today.
The pressure on Lara Gut-Behrami does not diminish with the delay. According to Walter Reusser, director of alpine skiing at Swiss-Ski, those responsible are confident that the narrow but dense strip of fog will soon disappear. The fog crept in for a short time about an hour ago and then disappeared again. Hopefully this happens again now.
This is how it looks on the slopes. Perspective? Any. Also, there is no reliable information on an early start.
Apparently a replacement starting point is already being discussed below. It would take about an hour to prepare. What would that do to drivers’ nerves (and ours)?
At the moment there is nothing but fog in the delta section, the situation has worsened. This does not work this way. We hope for the best and send our regards to Petrus.
We hope this band of fog will disappear soon. At the moment there are no times when this should start.
Some fog has crept over the slope, but it should start here in a few minutes.
By the way, their low exit figures (2, 7, 9 and 16) should be an advantage for Swiss women. The slope will probably suffer more from driver to driver.
We don’t have to wait much longer, the first race of the World Championship is about to start. After the cancellation of yesterday’s combine due to too much snow, the slope is great, according to Gisin. “I don’t know how they did it,” she told SRF, surprised but satisfied.
Gut-Behrami start the race with number 7. In addition, three other Swiss women are starting. Priska Nufer (Start number 2), Corinne Suter (9) and Michelle Gisin (sixteen). You should keep an eye out for Suter, the winner of last winter’s discipline. This season he finished second, third, fifth, seventh and ninth in the Super-G.
In addition to the aforementioned Tamara Tippler (AUT), Ester Ledecka (CZE), Petra Vlhova (SVK) and defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin, the favorites are for those who will be the first race in this discipline this winter. The two Italians Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino also see opportunities.
The best from a Swiss point of view? With Lara Gut-Behrami, we sent the top favorite to the slopes. The Ticino woman has won the last four Super-Gs at the World Cup and finally looks ready for World Cup gold. So far, the 29-year-old has three silver and two bronze medals on her account, she should reach the top today.
Here you can read why Gut-Behrami is driving great again. And here, why the big event in Cortina anyway? the World Cup should be the Switzerland.
The question is whether Lara Gut-Behrami can handle the pressure in Super-G.
Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand (Keystone / dpa)
Is it already tingling? Today the Ski World Cup begins with the first race, at 1:00 p.m. the women’s Super-G begins. We live live.
