The startlist of the new challenge in Bormio (Sunday, 11.30 am), with the Azzurri looking for the podium with the Piedmontese, triumphant on the Saslong and bib number 11 immediately after the favourite, Paris at the end of the first group and then the Garda player who takes dream and will leave after the big names. Kriechmayr for the redemption, many big names are missing. Schieder is resting, Bernardi will be there.
It’s the turn of the super-g on the “Stelvio”, certainly far away in terms of emotions and spectacle compared to what the descent in Bormio is capable of offering, but still very interesting especially considering how it will be laid out (this time the design is entrusted to the home coach Austria) the move to Carcentina, which will be the heart of the last match of 2024.
Appointment set for 11.30 am on Sunday (with live TV on Eurosport 1/Discovery+ and Rai Sport) in Valtellina for the third specialty challenge of the season after Beaver Creek, when Odermatt won, and Val Gardena with the success of Mattia Casse who today is He was also amazing on the downhill, apart from the mistake that cost him the podium (and perhaps the victory).
The Piedmontese will still be the blue light, in a super-g without many important names: naturally the one with the most “impact” on the race is that of Sarrazin, but also Haaser (who could only return for the World Championships at home), Meillard, who decided to save himself by thinking about the technical races at the beginning of 2025, the other Swiss Boisset, that Lukas Feurstein on the podium in the opening in Colorado and, in Italy, Guglielmo Bosca and Pietro Zazzi.
It will be up to Gino Caviezel to inaugurate the second challenge at the Stelvio, followed by the Austrians Hemetsberger and Babinsky, then watch out for Norge Moeller, double fourth place in the first two specialty races, with 4th before Alexander, today on the podium in the queen discipline, and Kriechmayr who is thirsty for redemption and with the 6th he will open the first world group.
Rogentin can do very well, Crawford is far from his top but this is still his specialty, in which Allegre won in CdM (last year in Garmisch ahead of Bosca) who will wear the no. 9, just before Odermatt, dominant in the Bormino super-g a year ago, and Casse who will follow the Nidwalden with 11th.
Then Goldberg, second one hundredth from the “tractor” on the Saslong, eight days ago, and Pinturault (n° 13) who focused only on this race, skipping the descent; Jeffrey Read, who is always a nice loose cannon, will be followed by Dominik Paris who, given how “his” descent went, will not have particular expectations and perhaps for this very reason he will be able to descend free from any type of pressure.
After the giant from Val d’Ultimo, maximum attention goes to Franjo von Allmen who is capable of anything even in super-g, then Sejersted, Radamus and above all Cochran-Siegle (19) and Murisier (20), candidates for the podium in a race which, in the forecast behind King Odermatt, could be very open.
Italy will propose nine athletes, without Florian Schieder who after having struggled again in the downhill will save himself thinking about the classics in January, and with a great card like Giovanni Franzoni who can do very well here: the 23 year old from Garda, 19th in the downhill, will start with a excellent number 22, well ahead of Innerhofer (35), Molteni (44), Alliod (51), Perathoner with 54, Gregorio Bernardi (55) who he returns to have a chance in CdM and Marco Abbruzzese, also in his second super-g among the “big men”, with 58 out of 61 starters.
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MEN’S SUPER-G – Bormio
Startlist: 1 Caviezel, 2 Hemetsberger, 3 Babinsky, 4 Moeller, 5 C. Alexander, 6 Kriechmayr, 7 Rogentin, 8 Crawford, 9 Allegre, 10 Odermatt, 11 Heist12 Goldberg, 13 Pinturault, 14 J. Read, 15 Paris16 von Allmen, 17 Sejersted, 18 Radamus, 19 Cochran-Siegle, 20 Murisier, 22 Franzoni, 35 Innerhofer, 44 Molteni, 51 Alliod, 54 Perathoner, 55 Bernardi, 58 Abbruzzese.
