Alpine skiing: via the finals of Meribel with the blues out of the game – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 17, 2015 at 14:38.

It’s up to the men and the women down to open tomorrow the finals of World Cup 2014/15, in Meribel, France: a real, small, but exciting, championship world, with races in all disciplines, for a prize of the two World Cups and various cups of discipline. The Azzurri, however, are out of the game and can only point to some podium to close the season with some satisfaction.

The first race will be the men down. The Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud, with 505 points, will compete in the race for the cup of discipline, with the Austrian Hannes Reichelt, at an altitude of 585. The blue Paris – modest in the only training run – is third at 386 points and must at least groped to arrive after this season, remaining on this step of the podium. With Paris, the Blues in the race tomorrow will then Peter Fill, Werner Heel and the young newly crowned World Junior, Henri Battilani, class of 1994: precisely this title allowed him to participate in law in these finals, with the top 25 in the world of the discipline . For Jansrud also tomorrow’s race will be crucial in the race for the conquest of the great World Cup, where there’s the lead with 1,248 points the Austrian Marcel Hirscher who, however, is not a sprinter and therefore does not compete tomorrow, against 1,084 of the Norwegian.

For the women down the American Lindsey Vonn wants to win, after the disappointment in his world Vail-Beaver Creek, the seventh bowl in this discipline. In the two trials was the best and leads the standings with 402 points. Has to deal with the Austrian Anna Fenninger – who has not participated in the second training run – at an altitude of 367 and, further back, not mathematically out of contention, with the Slovenian Tina Maze at 306. The blue – on track with the sisters Nadia and Elena Fanchini, plus Johanna Schnarf – can only hope for a good last race. Fenninger and Maze are then, however, in the struggle to win the World Cup. Fenninger – the defending – has 1,341 points and obviously wants to win back the trophy. Maze – who has won two seasons ago – is at an altitude of 1311 and wants to get back on top of the world. It will be a duel continuous in each of the races of Meribel.

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