Italian disappointment in the giant slalom of the Milan Cortina Olympics: De Aliprandini and Kastlunger out in the first heat, things aren’t better in the second heat. behind Franzoni, Alex Vinatzer also falls.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen hypotheca l’oro: the Brazilian, who started with bib number one, dominates the first heat and gives 95 hundredths of a second to the Swiss Marco Odermatt, the favourite, and 1″57 to Loic Meillard. The other Swiss Thomas Tumler (+1″89) and the Frenchman Leo Anguenot (+1″91) are also fighting for medals.
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The German Gratz also falls
The last blue in the race, Alex Vinatzer falls halfway through the race
The American Radamus at the gate, goes down in brakes and finishes eighth
It’s the turn of the Austrian Feurstein who disappoints and loses more than half a second
The Norwegian Haugan finishes 2 hundredths of a second behind the pacesetter Schwarz
The German Grammel is only fifth at +44 hundredths
The Croatian Zubcic starts with an advantage of just 7 cents over Schwarz, but ends up 22 cents behind after a problem with his glasses
It’s the turn of the Slovakian Zampa who finishes 1”16 behind
The Austrian Schwarz is first by just one cent
Verdu (Andorra) scores the best heat time and is first by 19 hundredths
The German Schmidt took the provisional first position in 1’10”64
On the track, the Swiss Aerni crossed the finish line in first position by just 2 hundredths
The Danish Borgnaes starts well but makes several mistakes and finishes 14 hundredths behind Haaser
The German Schwartz makes a mistake and ends up in second position at +55 hundredths
The Austrian Haaser finishes in 1’10”75 and takes the lead by 82 hundredths
The Lithuanian Drukarov takes the lead by 10 cents
Giovanni Franzoni look for the feat, he is leading by 98 cents
The Argentinian Gravier finished in 1’11’85 and was second by 19 hundredths
It’s the turn of the New Zealander Laidlaw who makes a lot of mistakes and takes a 1”79 gap
The American Sarchett finishes in 1’11”39
The Finnish Pohjolainen goes down first and finishes in 1’12”10
De Aliprandini: ‘A ski hasn’t come off for 10 years’
“I hadn’t had a ski come off for ten years.” This is the bitter comment in the mixed zone by Luca De Aliprandini, who left mid-race in the giant slalom after a technical problem with the attack. A similar accident had happened to Dominik Paris in the downhill. “It’s a real shame that it happened here today at the Olympics – adds De Aliprandini -. I’m sorry because I was still having a good race. I didn’t start the attack immediately from the first door, but I tried to feel a bit of the feeling with the snow and in the central part I had picked up a good rhythm. It would have been interesting to put myself there, in an area like Vinatzer or under two seconds, and then go all out in the second heat. It’s sad that a dream was shattered like this due to a technical defect”.
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The Azzurri competing today in Milan Cortina
– Curlingwomen’s group stage: Italy-China (Stefania CONSTANTINI, Marta LO DESERTO, Rebecca MARIANI, Elena Antonia MATHIS, Giulia ZARDINI LACEDELLI). 9.05am – 12.05pm
– Alpine skiingmen’s giant slalom, first run (Luca DE ALIPRANDINI, Giovanni FRANZONI, Tobias KASTLUNGER, Alex VINATZER). 10.00am – 12.30pm
– Freestylewomen’s parallel moguls, 16th final (Manuela PASSARETTA). 10.30am – 10.55am – Cross-country skiing, women’s relay (Federica CASSOL, Iris DE MARTIN PINTER, Martina DI CENTA, Caterina GANZ). 12.00pm – 1.55pm
– Alpine skiingmen’s giant slalom, second run (Luca DE ALIPRANDINI, Giovanni FRANZONI, Tobias KASTLUNGER, Alex VINATZER). 1.30pm – 3-10pm
– Biathlonwomen’s sprints (Hannah AUCHENTALLER, Michela CARRARA, Lisa VITTOZZI, Dorothea WIERER). 2.45pm – 4.15pm.
– Ice hockeygroup B men: Finland-Italy (Matthew James BRADLEY, Damian CLARA, Tommaso DE LUCA, Dylan Damian DI PERNA, Gregory DI TOMASO, Cristiano DIGIACINTO, Davide FADANI, Luca FRIGO, Mats Mikael FRYCKLUND, Dustin James GAZLEY, Daniel GLIRA, Diego KOSTNER, Thomas William LARKIN, Daniel Thomas MANTENUTO, Giovanni MORINI, Alexander Franc PETAN, Phil PIETRONIRO, Tommy PURDELLER, Nicholas Samuel SARACINO, Jason Thomas Alexander SEED, Alessandro SEGAFREDO, Alex TRIVELLATO, Gianluca VALLINI, Luca Elia ZANATTA, Marco ZANETTI). 4.40pm – 7.10pm.
– Speed skating500 m men (Jeffrey ROSANELLI). 5.00pm – 5.55pm. – Skeleton, individual women heat 3 (Alessandra FUMAGALLI, Valentina MARGAGLIO). 6.00pm – 7.15pm.
– Ski jumpingLh Individual men’s trampoline (Giovanni BRESADOLA, Francesco CECON, Alex INSAM). 6.45pm – 8.50pm.
– Curlingwomen’s group stage: Italy-Sweden (Stefania CONSTANTINI, Marta LO DESERTO, Rebecca MARIANI, Elena Antonia MATHIS, Giulia ZARDINI LACEDELLI). 7.05pm – 10.05pm.
– Freestylebig air women qualifiers (Maria GASSLITTER, Flora TABANELLI). 7.30pm – 9.45pm.
– Skeletonindividual women Heat 4 (Alessandra FUMAGALLI, Valentina MARGAGLIO). 7.35pm – 8.50pm.
– Short track1500 m men, quarter finals (Thomas NADALINI, Pietro SIGHEL, Luca SPECHENHAUSER). 8.15pm – 8.55pm.
– Short track1000 m women qualifiers (Chiara BETTI, Elisa CONFORTOLA, Arianna FONTANA). 9.01pm – 9.40pm.
– Short trackmen’s 1500 m, semi-finals. 9.49pm – 10.00pm.
– Short trackwomen’s relay, Semifinals. 10.05pm – 10.30pm.
– Short track1500 m men, Final B. 10.35pm – 10.40pm.
– Short track1500 m men, Final A. 10.42pm – 10.50pm
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