It snowed and rained last night and the snow continues to fall this morning. The wind also prevailed on the Hinterstoder region this Friday. The weather forecast for the day is not good either. Consequence: the combined for this World Cup stage is canceled.
The organizers had already decided to reverse the program, from Thursday, with the slalom in the first heat and the super-G in the second heat, but that was not enough in the face of the weather constraints.
Two events are still on the program this weekend for the Men’s World Cup: the super-G on Saturday and the giant on Sunday. The forecast is more optimistic for Saturday, but rain is again announced Sunday.
“It’s like that, it’s part of our sport, unfortunately“reacted Alexis Pinturault, favorite for the victory on the combined.”There are times when it’s not necessarily easy. “
The jury and the organizing committee are nevertheless working to find an alternative solution with the desire to offer the three tests initially planned for the next three days at Hinterstoder.
Alexis Pinturault: “It’s not necessarily a good thing for me”
It’s a big blow in the race for the crystal globe for Alexis Pinturault. Big favorite for the combined victory this Friday, the discipline where he is the most regular and who could bring him 100 points, he misses the opportunity to get closer to his two main competitors Henrik Kristoffersen and Aleksander Kilde.
If the Savoyard should win the little globe, that is not its main objective. “This cancellation is not very good news in the sense that it is an important discipline, which allows me to be able to make a difference in general. There, these are two consecutive races canceled, in two weekends (with the slalom of Naeba, note) and which place Kilde, without taking a start, in a position of favorite, from weekend to weekend end because it’s always less races to take back points. For my part, it is not necessarily a good thing. After that, I respect the decision of the Fis, with snowfall like that, organizing speed races is complicated. “
Aleksander Kilde, the current World Cup leader, keeps the advantage and therefore benefits from the cancellation of the Naeba slalom – a discipline he does not compete in – not yet replaced to the calendar and the cancellation of the combined, to maintain its lead over its two pursuers, specialists in technical events.
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