Alpine skiing, who ranks Italy in the Team Event. Solid quartet and with the parallel world champion – OA Sport

The Team Event will conclude the program of the alpine skiing at the Olympics Beijing Winter 2022. Saturday 19 February (starting at 04.00 Italian time) the team competition, which involves the participation of sixteen national teamseach consisting of four athletes (two men and two women). Each skier will face an opponent (clearly of the same sex) and who will win the heat, disputed in parallel giant, will take home the point. The team that will be ahead in the scoring at the end of the four tests will pass the round, it starts with the round of 16 and it will go on until the final act.

Italy will try to replenish its loot with medals, for the moment stopped at an altitude of four (two silvers and two bronzes). The tricolor quartet is decidedly competitive and has all the credentials to aim for important goals. Federica Brignone he will want to finish his Games with a flourish after the silver in the giant and the bronze in combined: the Aosta Valley is in excellent shape, she is competitive in parallel and can give confidence to her teammates.

Marta Bassino is the parallel world champion (she won the world title last year in Cortina d’Ampezzo) and is motivated to get her hands on something concrete after the bitter fall in giant and the combined exit. The Piedmontese can enjoy a high technical caliber, she must be good at managing the situation and making the most of her talent.

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On the male front, however, we rely on Luca De Aliprandini and Alex Vinatzerboth disappointed by the exits in the second rounds of giant and slalom respectively: the vice world champion between wide doors and the specialist of rapid gates they declared themselves very confident for this test, now it will be necessary to transform motivation into energy on the track. Switzerland, Austria, Norway and Sweden are scary, but Italy will struggle to try to get on the podium. There will also be Mikaela Shiffrin, eager for redemption.

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