The American Mikaela Shiffrin, two-time Olympic champion, or the Italian Federica Brignone, silver in PyeongChang in 2018, are the competitors called to win in the giant slalom event, belonging to the alpine skiing sport of the Winter Olympic Games Beijing-2022, in which Ecuador will mark its debut with skier Sarah Escobar.
The official page of the Olympic Games realizes that the tricolor representative has to stand up to “veteran stars” of the stature of Shiffrin, who will try to reach gold for the third consecutive time.
It also highlights that Escobar will participate with other Spanish-speaking athletes such as Nuria Pau (Spain), Emilia Aramburo (Chile) and Sarah Schleper (Mexico).
And he adds that among the applicants we must not lose sight of the Swedish Sara Hector, leader of the World Cup in the specialty. Nor to Marta Bassino (Italy), Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland), Petra Vlhová (Slovakia) or Tessa Worley (France).
The Italian Brignone, silver in PyeongChang-2018, “is also one to keep in mind, since she won the classification of the Giant Slalom World Cup in 2020”.
According to the program shown on the olympics.com website, at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Center the first race starts on Monday, February 7 at 09:30 local time and the second at 14:30 local time; while in Ecuadorian time the initial test is scheduled for this Sunday 6 at 8:30 p.m. and the second round, on Monday, at 01:30 a.m..
The output order shows that the ecuadorian is number 78 out of 82 competitors. The Italian Brignone appears with the number 3, the Swedish Hector with the 6 and the North American Shiffrin with the 7.
The press office of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE) has indicated that Escobar will start his participation at 10:15 a.m. in China (9:15 p.m. on Sunday, February 6 in Ecuador).
The giant slalom competition will be broadcast via Clear Brand, on his YouTube channel and website from 9:05 p.m. this Sunday, February 6. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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