Val di Fassa women’s superGs weather threatened

Val di Fassa superGs at risk, but Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino want to confirm

Three years after the two downhill runs and the superG in late February 2021, the La VolatA slope at Ski Area Passo San Pellegrino in Val di Fassa is back to host women’s World Cup races: two superGs are scheduled for Saturday 24 and Sunday 25. There'è a factor that could però spoil the organizers’ plans, and this factor is called weather. In fact, precipitation totaling 40 centimeters of snow is expected tomorrow, over the weekend the bad weather is expected to give some respite, but the sky is expected to remain cloudy, and the possibility of strong winds is not to be neglected either. A lot of work therefore awaits, given these forecasts, the organizers in the night between Friday and Saturday so that the track will be cleaned up and the safety of the athletes guaranteed.

Cancellation of races could favor Mikaela Shiffrin

If, unfortunately, the races were to be canceled, it would change the balance in the fight for the overall World Cup, partly because there would be no room to recover them. Leading the standings in fact is Swiss Lara Gut with 205 points ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin, who è stopped by the terrible fall in the first downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in which she è injured, fortunately not seriously, her left knee. The end of the season is missing, in addition to the superGs in Val di Fassa, a downhill and a superG in Kvitfjell, a giant slalom and a slalom in Are, and finally the downhill, superG, giant slalom and slalom finals in Saalbach-Hinterglemm.

The spotlight on the duel between Lara Gut and Mikaela Shiffrin for the Overall Cup

If Shiffrin were to return to compete in Are, as seems likely, it would give Gut four races in her favor before the two technical races scheduled in Sweden, but still in the giant slalom the two would start with equal chances, if not yet with an advantage for Gut if Shiffrin were to be there but not at her best, then in the slalom the Ticino woman would not be there and would leave the way clear for the American, who would then have to decide, based on the gap to her rival, whether or not to be at the start in all the races in the finals. But if the super-G in Val di Fassa were to be canceled, the races fully favorable to the Swiss before Are would be only two, so the fight for the crystal ball would be reopened, although for Shiffrin it would be equally very difficult.

SuperG Val di Fassa, the hopes of the blue clan

Of course, the blue clan, given the great results obtained in Crans-Montana, hopes that the San Pellegrino Pass races will not be cancelled. Federica Brignone, after her two second places in Switzerland behind Marta Bassino in the second downhill and then ahead of the Cuneo skier but behind Austria's Stephanie Venier in the super-G, is avowedly aiming to win, but Marta would also like to seize her first World Cup success in a specialty of which she is the reigning world champion. Laura Pirovano is also eagerly awaited on the snows almost of her home, although she è from a different part of the province of Trento, Spiazzo, near Madonna di Campiglio, but è it is clear that she too will have many fans in tow dasvanti to whom she will want to do well. There&39;è curiosityà also for the progress of the daughter of art Teresa Runggaldier, who in Crans-Montana came close to the top 10 in the downhill. Supporting her teammates on the Fassa snows is finally Elena Curtoni, who had to skip almost the entire season due to injury and who è recently returned to skiing and is already training ahead of next winter.