Be careful, you should not trust his 54th place on the scoreboard for the first training session of the Wengen downhill. Alexis Monney, wearing bib number 2, had to be interrupted in his race after the exit of his compatriot Stefan Rogentin who had started first on the Lauberhorn. The Grison had a big fall and is suffering from some pain which does not seem too serious according to initial information.
The winner of the Bormio downhill then waited patiently for more than seven minutes on site before regaining his momentum and finishing his exercise, once the track was secure again. And if we look at the times by sector, the Fribourgeois is very fast, since he aligned the 8th, 1st and 3rd times from the Kernen-S and the sliding part of the Hanneggschuss. Without his stop, the skier from Châtel-Saint-Denis would certainly have finished in the top 6 of this first timed test.
Arnaud Boisset also stopped, Swiss behind
A similar mishap happened to Arnaud Boisset. The American made a mistake just before the Valaisan who was shown a yellow flag and also had to stop his effort. For his return to competition after a major concussion, he did not mind taking any risks.
This first training session was dominated by the Canadian Cameron Alexander, who however missed a gate. He was ahead of the Austrian Otmar Striedinger by 21 hundredths and the Italian Mattia Casse by 46. The Swiss skiers remained behind. None are among the fifteen fastest. Marco Kohler, who returns to the station where he was seriously injured twice in the past, set the 16th time. Marco Odermatt (22nd), Lars Rösti (23rd) and Franjo Von Allmen (25th) did not exert their talent, just like Justin Murisier (52nd).
JT
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