The cancellation also of the second descent on the Birds of Prey, the three recoveries still to be scheduled (but it will be difficult to find space for all of them) and another triptych, after the one in Val Gardena, definitely probable for Bormio at the end of the year. The men’s World Cup now clings to Sunday’s super-g, although the wind could be even stronger than today.
An announced disaster, in the sense that already after the two (splendid) days of testing, between Tuesday and Wednesday, the forecasts spoke clearly and, as happened in Zermatt-Cervinia, they were not wrong even by one iota.
On the other hand, at an altitude of 3000 meters and above as in the case of the races in Colorado, after the glacier attempt in mid-November in our Alps, this is often the situation and Markus Waldner was unable to do anything else, even today, which cancel scheduled descent number 2 at Beaver Creek.
The main problem this Saturday was the wind, even though new fresh snow arrived on the track and guaranteeing safety on the entire Birds of Prey track would have been very complicated anyway. On Sunday there is the super-g, with no possibility of playing on Monday for a possible recovery (all the flights are booked for Europe, next Saturday there will already be a race again with the giant in Val d’Isère) , but the forecast indicates even stronger gusts of wind than today, although managing this test is certainly a little easier than the descent, with the start already fixed at the wall.
The men’s World Cup has so far seen 5 of the 6 scheduled races cancelled, with the Solden giant finding space in March again in Colorado, in Aspen where there will be three technical tests, and one of the descents skipped on the “Gran Becca ” which will take place on the Saslong in Val Gardena, Thursday 14 December.
Italy will become the absolute protagonist of the calendar given that it is highly probable that there will be as many as 9 consecutive races on our snow: the Gardena triptych, followed by the two giants on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia (non-stop, with 5 days of series challenges , very tough for Odermatt first of all…), then the slalom on December 22nd in Campiglio and here Bormio, where the downhill and super-g on the Stelvio are scheduled for the 28th and 29th of the month, already seems to be the first candidate for another recovery, also because there are no other good dates between Wengen and Kitz until January.
There would then remain two more descents to be placed (and the two women’s ones in Zermatt-Cervinia…), but it seems really complicated to think that they could all be held, net of other cancellations always around the corner, also considering what has happened in recent years in Val Gardena.
2023-12-02 18:20:00
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