Training slightly shortened due to wind (snow should arrive on Thursday before descent n ° 1 on Friday), but the Norwegian impresses especially in the more technical section. Only Kline and Franz under half a second behind, “Domme” in the top ten area.
Test number 2 in Lake Louise, in view of the men’s descents that will open the World Cup also of the jet men, between Friday and Saturday (then there will be the super-g on Sunday), this time only partially conditioned by the wind that recommended the jury to remove the initial schuss.
In any case, no problem in terms of races since yesterday the entire Men’s Olympic Downhill was covered, considering that for Thursday the last training has already been canceled, with a “heavy” snowfall coming (the forecasts are not good either for Saturday).
If yesterday he had already impressed his competitive return after 10 months, today Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was frightening, dominating a test that saw the champion Norge preceding the Slovenian Bostjan Kline by 42 cents, now very fast, and by almost half a second (48 cents) the one who finds himself wonderfully on the Canadian track, not surprisingly already the best time trial yesterday, or the Carinthian Max Franz. Partially also Ryan Cochran-Siegle, fourth at 57 cents and immediately on the ball with the new materials, then the Swedish Felix Monsen great 5th (+ 0 “76) and it is necessary to go down to almost 9 tenths of a second to find the two German Sanders and Schwaiger, with Matthias Mayer eighth at + 0 ”96.
And here is Dominik Paris, 9th time at 1 ”11 from Kilde, with results that added to those of yesterday can be considered positive; followed by the colossus of Val d’Ultimo are the various Hintermanns, Hemetsberger, Rogentin, Baumann and Jansrud (14th at 1 “34), with Christof Innerhofer second blue in the standings at 1” 56, in the top 20 as Odermatt and Feuz, preceded by a tenth from the Alto Adige, while the world champion Kriechmayr is much more distant (2 “63), but he practically stopped before the finish line after he sailed for at least one time in the top 15 until the last intermediate. Alexis Pinturault definitely improved his performance compared to 24 hours before, but still pays over 3 “.
Nils Allegre (bib 2) did not start even today, in Italy the selection in view of the races, with seven places available, could already be such without tomorrow’s training: Mattia Casse finished at 2 “05, out from thirty in the day Buzzi at 2 ”37, Marsaglia at 2” 44, Bosca at 2 ”84, Tonetti at 3” 05, Zazzi at 3 ”52 and Molteni at 4” 31.
RANKING 2 ^ MALE DESCENT REST LAKE LOUISE
1 ° Alexander Aamodt Source in 1’44 ”68
2° Bostjan Kline + 0”42
3° Max Franz + 0”48
4° Ryan Cochran-Siegle + 0”57
5 ° Felix Monsen + 0 ”76
6 ° Andreas Sander + 0 ”86
7 ° Dominik Schwaiger + 0 ”89
8th Matthias Mayer + 0 ”96
9 ° Dominik Paris + 1 ”11
10 ° Niels Hintermann + 1 ”17
17 ° Christof Innerhofer + 1 ”56
28th Mattia Casse + 2 ”05
33rd Emanuele Buzzi + 2 ”37
35th Matteo Marsaglia + 2 “44
43 ° Guglielmo Bosca + 2 ”84
47 ° Riccardo Tonetti + 3 ”05
54th Pietro Zazzi + 3 ”52
65 ° Nicolò Molteni + 4 ”31
