Bassino, Brignone, De Aliprandini and Vinatzer defeated by the USA in the last act at the Alpine Skiing Games. Gold to Austria, silver to Germany and bronze to Norway. Dry shiffrin
Italy ends in the quarter-finals their journey at ther event, last act in five circles of alpine skiing. The blue team, thanks to a quartet expert in the discipline that saw Marta Bassino, Federica Brignone, Luca De Aliprandini, Alex Vinatzer compete, is beaten by United States by Mikaela Shiffrin with the score of 3-1. In the second round, our standard bearers had defeated the Russian Olympic Committee. Gold to Austria.
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After yesterday’s strong wind, which had prevented it from taking place, the Beijing 2022 alpine skiing program ended on the last day of the Games with the team event. On a very cold morning, it was already understood that there would be very little hope of a medal for Italy in the parallel team slalom. The times recorded in the round of 16 against the Russian Olympic Committee, beaten 3-1, were already very high compared to what would have been our opponents in the quarterfinals. Particularly by making a comparison with the highly favored United States.
The fact is that the quartet composed by Marta Bassino, Federica BrignoneLuca De Aliprandini and Alex Vinatzer had to succumb to skiers of the caliber of Mikaela Shiffrin (beaten in the run, however, by Bassino), Paula Moltzan (a parallel specialist), River Radamus and Tommy Ford. No last joy, therefore, for Italy at the Chinese Winter Olympics. But 17 overall medals are still an excellent haul.
Gold Medal to Austria, who in the final beat the Germany for the sum of the best times after the 2-2 at the end of the challenges between the posts of the mixed parallel giant. Bronze to the Norwaywho in the “final” beat the USA (who had eliminated Italy in the quarterfinals) for the sum of the best times after the 2-2 at the end of the challenges on the track. Mikaela Shiffrin he also lost in the sixth attempt in Beijing 2022 against the Norwegian Stjernesund and closed the Olympics without even a medal.
THE WORDS OF THE BLUE PROTAGONISTS: “SIN”
“We lost against a very strong team like the United States. Moltzan did the same time as the men, this format is a team match and the Americans were competitive, we tried it, it was a great experience to share this opportunity with others. teammates “, the words of Brignone. “In our sport there have never been other opportunities of this kind, in a sport like ours which is individual. It was very nice these days to be together with the other guys. This Olympics ends, I am really satisfied – added the Aosta Valley by drawing up a final balance – Making two medals was a beautiful dream and making it happen was even more beautiful, an incredible emotion. Now I rest one day, change my suitcase and leave for Crans Montana, one of my favorite stages in the world even if there will be two descents “. “Then three weeks of fire await me that can still reserve me a lot of satisfactions, starting with the supergiant ranking, but I also want to face the three giants who are missing with the right determination – concluded the blue -. I don’t think about the general classification. I think about it even if I occupy the third position, I will definitely go down hard until the last race “.
Less happy, Marta Bassino: “I come home a few days to train, I skip the Crans Montana races in the World Cup to train in Livigno before going to Lenzerheide and concentrate in view of the closing events. The Olympic experience was certainly not positive, there is it’s a bit of disappointment, but I look ahead and take what positive these two weeks have left me as I usually do, to bring it to the track in the next races “.
“It’s a shame because I’m skiing well but I go home with nothing. I believed a lot in the team event, I’m aware that my crash in the quarter-final run was decisive against the United States, it’s a race where you win and you he loses all together, but it weighed on me because it also involved my teammates, “he said Luca De Aliprandini after deletion. “I am happy to be back in Italy, I have been in China for many days and I want to reset my energy to return to Kranjska Gora in the best possible way in view of the World Cup finals – he added – In these days I have lacked a bit of continuity on the way of the injury in Adelboden, I trained little but now I’m fine and with a few more days of training at home I can go back to fighting for the podium in the last races of the year “.
Disappointed too Alex Vinatzer: “I wasn’t able to do well in either of the two races in which I participated, I struggled so much with this aggressive and different snow, you just have to work and be more ready in the future because there are always on the track of variables, just look at Shiffrin who has won everything in his career, but here he was left with a dry mouth. The Olympics are crazy races especially on these snows, the Milan-Cortina Olympics will start for me as soon as I get off the plane in Italy . Now we will make a plan with the coaches regarding the next matches between now and the end of the season, with the aim of eliminating all the mistakes I still make in view of the next season. “
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