Schladming in the name of Odermatt and Strasser; in Cortina, Italy without victories in 3 days; how scary for Her Majesty.
Men’s GIANT SLALOM – Odermatt leaves nothing to his giant slalom opponents, not even to Schladming! All his victories in the queen discipline this season are: 5 in a row. Chasing the legend of Ingemar Stenmark with 14 consecutive successes in giant slalom, the Swiss has 8 considering last season. There Plans of Schladming, battered by a heavy downpour in anticipation of the White Circus week, is a track that is very icy in the upper part thanks to the treatment with water and salt and completely transformed in the second part, due to the anomalous temperatures of the week. The perfect terrain for Marco Odermatt, who makes adaptability his trademark. The victory came with great difficulty due to two gross errors in the first heatfinished 11th at 0.98” from Manuel Feller. The Austrian suffered Odermatt’s peremptory comeback and had to settle for second place at 0.05″. Slovenian Zan Kranjec was third at 0.29”.. First wonderful career Top10 for Filippo Della Vite: the 2001 Bergamo team, on which Italian hopes for Cortina 2026 are based, was in extreme need of confirmation after the disappointing results of the last period. This result from Schladming is a breath of fresh air for the boy who has found his smile again. Well done Pippo!
SPECIAL SLALOM Men – Back to Back Strasser! The German repeats Kitz’s success on the Plans from Schladming ahead of Timon Haugan (2nd, +0.28”) and the French Clement Noel (3rd, +1.02”). Due to the high temperatures, the Planai was marked immediately, greatly favoring the athletes who came down with their first bibs. She had benefited especially ours Alex Vinatzer (5°, +0.67”): an excellent approach for the Gardena native, who had the task of finding himself in his discipline in a season that had seen him obtain greater earnings from the giant, not his job. Unfortunately, Alex hit the wall halfway in the second heat and saw a great chance of reaching the podium disappear.
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Women’s Downhill Downhill – Friday – The race of terror goes to Stephanie Venier! Everything happens onOlimpia delle Tofane: lots of falls and injuries! The scariest accident involved Mikaela Shiffrin, who lost her footing on the jump Duke of Aosta finishing head-on against the nets bouncing off his left knee. The preliminary tests seem to have ruled out cruciate injuries but the American still decided to take a break to recover. It didn’t go any better Nadine Fest, who broke his cruciate after an apparently harmless tackle. Staying on the merits of the race, there was a very crowded podium: behind Venier and Lara Gut-Behrami (2nd at 0.39”) ci last state i 3 athletes equally on the lowest step of the podium. Valérie Grenier, Cristina Ager and Sofia Goggia, all 0.71” behind the Austrian. If the first two are a surprise at the top levels of downhill racing, the Bergamo native was looking for her fourth victory in Cortina. Unfortunately she didn’t arrive, but Goggia certainly won’t stop here.
SUPER G Men – Saturday – In Garmisch we run like a miracle! The very high temperatures in Bavaria have put the races on the track at serious risk Kandahar, the only strip of snow in the middle of the green hills. The miraculous work of the experts has allowed Nils Allegre to win the first race of his career. Staying on the subject of first times, Guglielmo Bosca obtained the first podium in his career: the results were slowly taking shape in the latest outings, finally theexploit gave the Milanese second place at +0.18”. Loic Meillard was third at 0.25”: the versatile Swiss, between one prototype attack and another, found the time to stay on track and obtain a worthy result in the World Cup. Also in the Top10 is Domink Paris 8th at 0.54”, who is skiing literally on clay he also takes home important points in Super-G.
Women’s Downhill Downhill – Saturday – What a mockery for Sofia Goggia! The Bergamo native was knocked off the podium by Ragnhild Mowinckel (winner) and Jacqueline Wiles (2nd, +0.35”) when the ship seemed to have arrived in port. The wind, which had interrupted the race on several occasions, changed direction, putting itself behind the athletes, helping the Norwegian and the American team who were able to take advantage of the situation and mock our team. Braveheart who also said on the microphones that she was sorry for the mockery but is already oriented towards Garmisch (Spoiler Alert: Races in Germany will be canceled two days later). For Italy Top10 for Marta Bassino 8th – this year she is fighting more against herself than with her opponents – e Federica Brignone 12th.
SUPER G Men – Sunday – Marco Odermatt still protagonist. The Swiss achieves a victory which virtually gives him the Super G specialty cup. Not just Sarrazin’s exit, not just because in Kvitfjell there could already be a mathematical victory in the general classification too. Completing the podium were the Austrian Raphael Haaser (2nd, +0.30”) and his compatriot from Odermatt, Franjo Von Allmen (3rd, +0.61”), considered the future star of downhill skiing and who in his first season with the ”big boys” has already achieved two Top 10s and the first podium of his career. Watch out for this guy, we’ll hear more about him. Italy left empty-handed: the best is Mattia Casse 11th.
SUPERG Female – Lara Gut chasing Shiffrin! The victory in the Super-G reignites the race for the Women’s World Cup given the break in Her Majesty still with a duration to be defined. The Swiss arrow burns Stephanie Venier (2nd, +0.21”) and Romaine Miradoli (3rd, +0.41”). Italy emerging from its stronghold without victories: this hasn’t happened since 2019. However, a good result for the national team which brings the Three Sopranos into the Top10 (Goggia 5th, Bassino 6th, Brignone 9th), with Federica losing a lot of ground for the red bib in Super-G. The speed races in Garmisch have been cancelled, the only event for the Valanga Rosa will be the giant slalomIt’s early say Plan de Corones.