Alta Badia bitter for Alex Vinatzer: “Too bad.”

Alta Badia bitter for Alex Vinatzer

The first run of the slalom in Alta Badia, in the province of Bolzano, didn’t last long for Alex Vinatzer: è stumbled into a left-hand bend in the initial wall.

"I wanted to start off hard, push becauseé the slope was good – Vinatzer told the parterre – Maybe it was the first time in the season that I really started off hard but evidently this love-hate phase with slalom continues. Too bad becauseé with today’s gaps it was possible to fit in, but the slalom è soè, you have to keep working".

Timon Haugan leads by 31 hundredths of a second over the’other Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath. Starting with bib number 3, he interpreted the icy Gran Risa slope the best to stop the stopwatch on 52″25: only his compatriot è managed to keep in his wake, with everyone else forced to cope with a gap of around a second.

Twenty-second provisional place for Tobias Kastlunger, who looks for the best pace among the jointed poles but pays 2″92 from the leader.