We expected a reaction after blue gray down, and they did. The medal did not come, this no, but the dutiful applause: Werner Heel 4 °, 6 ° Cristof Innerhofer , 7th Patrick Staudacher, for an overall performance by peeling off his hands. The problem is that, looking at the posting end, those same hands would also be eating them: these are just two hundredths of a delay from the podium for an extraordinary Heel who, even had to justify some kind of atrocity, said the parterre dismayed 'I'm sorry , sorry '. Not to mention +0.08 registered Innerhofer, author of a capital race but conditioned by two barbs at the top of the track which could have led to who knows what latitudes, or +0.09 report made by an excellent Staudacher chasing confirmations in the discipline which saw him triumph at the World Championships in Are in 2007. Performance in the World Cup would taste very different, results which, alas, in the Olympic event are worth little or nothing more. No medal no party but so much so, blue chapeau!
Wins Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal and victory is deserved as much net. Not that three tenths of a second to be huge, anything, but in a match played on the cents such as today the gap is considerable. Check out the quiet, impressive acceleration in the middle, top-end speed of about 10 km / h compared to the adversary, and first Olympic gold for a sample that is used to winning it for some time: 13 hits in CdM, 2 Coppa general, 4 cups of specialty, 3 gold medals and two World Championships. Some days ago came the first Olympic silver in downhill, now the consecration: lacking just a bronze to close the circle of a crazy career, but it is likely that in the super giant and the aims of the phenomenon of Kjeller are very different.
E 'instead of a coin with two faces of the silver won by Bode Miller : sweet for an athlete who, until a month ago if not less, was labeled as boiled, bitter for one of the greatest players in the history of this sport which, most likely, fade sees the last opportunity to win the most coveted medal. It remains just the super combined on Sunday and, after the bronze and silver won at the beginning, it is also reasonable to expect everything from Crazy Bode. To close the speech
medal, those damn Werner Heel cost 2 cents a podium spot have a name and a surname, ie Weibrecht Andrew, 24-year old U.S. assets only with a tenth place in CdM best career result and many placed in the rear. Yet the second half of track racing in a divine and unexpected bronze final set seems simplistic: just the race of life to the appointment of life. Among the enemies of
trial should also include the Canadian Eric Guay, fifth in just one penny Heel, or three of the bronze Weibrecht. Rather disappointing as big favorites Cuche (10 °) and Walchhofer (21 °), to be closed without glorious career Olympic gold medals, and disappoints even the Swiss star Carlo Janka (8 °) which, on the first show in five circles, fails to replicate the wonderful CdM highlighted in the last two years.
is back on track with the super combined Sunday: 18.30 hours downhill, slalom 21.30. The chances a few blue, waiting, make no mistake, to play roles in the second week Olympic prima donnas.
David Collareta
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