De Silvestro comes out in the super-G and says goodbye to the combined

After the fourth place on his debut, the second race is unlucky for the athlete from Cadore. Program revolutionized due to temperatures, the giant on Monday night

BEIJING. After the wooden medal in super-G on Sunday, yesterday for René De Silvestro there was the exit, still in super-G, the first of two races (the other is the slalom) of the combined, the specialty he had recently given him the world title in Lillehammer.
René leaned too much and lost control of the trajectory, prematurely finishing the race that in January in the Norwegian Lillehammer had given him the world title.
Up to now it has not been an Olympics full of satisfactions for the blue from San Vito, absolute protagonist of the international Paralympic skiing, sitting category.

However, there are still opportunities to make up for it: the giant, which will take place tomorrow (at 3, on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday), and the slalom, which should take place on Friday or Saturday.
The Beijing Paralympics program is in fact undergoing changes compared to the original calendar. And this is due to the conditions of the snow (which is starting to give way). Conditions that made yesterday the combined that should have taken place earlier.
If yesterday was a bitter day for the ski club driver Druscié, Italy rejoiced for the victory of Giacomo Bertagnolli from Trentino. After the silver medal in Super G on Sunday, Bertagnolli and his guide Andrea Ravelli gave Italy the first blue gold of the thirteenth edition of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. at the Paralympics after four in PyeongChang 2018 with Fabrizio Casal. After finishing the first heat, that of super-G, in third position, in the slalom Bertagnolli and Ravelli attacked from the very first doors, finishing the test with a time of 1’49.80 and preceding the Austrians Johannes Agner and Matteo Fleischman by 2 “18 . The bronze went to Britons Neil Simpson and Andrew Simpson.
“It was a medal I really cared about because it was the only one I hadn’t won at the PyeongChang Games four years ago,” explains Bertagnolli. «I didn’t think I could do it because the level has become very high and right now it’s hard to just think about the podium. We did, however, two really good heats, in which we managed to express ourselves well, even if technically it was not my best race. We put our soul into it and we took a risk but if you want to take the gold you have to risk it ».
“Things change but the only thing that remains confirmed is that Giacomo is an extraordinary champion”, says the president of the Italian Paralympic Committee, Luca Pancalli “Confirming himself at these levels, also in light of the competitive growth of the competition, means a lot “.