When Marco Odermatt performs a little less well, there is always another Swiss skier to take over. The Nidwalden, 2nd in the first training session of the Val Gardena descent, could not do better than 40th this Wednesday, without going all out. No matter, Stefan Rogentin in turn showed himself at ease on the Saslong by setting the 3rd fastest time in the second timed test. The Grison, who even relaxed at the bottom of the course, was only 11 hundredths ahead of the Canadian James Crawford, while the Italian Mattia Cassa, faster the day before, managed the 2nd time.
Lars Rösti (9th) and Franjo von Allmen (13th) also stood out on the Italian track. Alexis Monney was the fastest Romand, taking 25th place. Justin Murisier ranked 35th.
No descent for Gaël Zulauf and Christophe Torrent
The last Swiss ticket goes to Alessio Miggiano. The 22-year-old from Zurich, in the top 10 last week during the European Cup descents in Santa Caterina, will experience his first in the World Cup on Saturday. He won his place by taking a magnificent 6th place during this second training session, far ahead of French-speaking Gaël Zulauf (32nd) and Christophe Torrent (52nd), with whom he was in internal qualification. The Vaudois and the Valaisan will still have to wait before celebrating their first and, respectively, second competition on the White Circus.
Note that Josua Mettler (55th), who was also not in the world top 30 in the downhill like the three athletes mentioned previously, did not need to go through the internal qualifications and was already guaranteed to participate in the downhill .
There will be no third and final training session on Thursday in Val Gardena. Friday will take place the super-G before the descent on Saturday.
JT
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