The French Alexis Pinturault - 29 years old, 32 / o career success and consolidated record in the general classification - clearly won the first of the two World Cup giant slaloms scheduled between today and tomorrow in Adelboden in 2'18 "26. Croatian Filip Zubcic (2'19 "30), third Swiss Marco Odermatt (2'19" 37).
For Italy the best - but still far from the podium - was the Trentino Luca De Aliprandini, 14 / o (2'21 "76). Then, there is only Giovanni Borsotti, 22 / o in 2'22" 43 . Due to a mistake and a bit of bad luck on the steep final wall, two doors from the finish line, Riccardo Tonetti from Bolzano, who was competing in a beautiful race and had scored 12th and best Italian in the first heat. Tomorrow it's the second giant's turn and Sunday the special slalom, a discipline in which Italy has the best chance of a good result, especially with the young Alex Vinatzer. In the race there were incidents that will require medical checks for the two Norwegians, Atle MCgrath and Lucas Braathen. Tomorrow it's the second giant slalom.