Ladies' Super-G 1 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Long weekend of speed events starting with a Super-G, replacing the one cancelled of Val d'Isere.
The two Super-Gs are different: sunday's one is the classical Super-G entirely along ladies' slope, "Kandahar 1"; this one has a little variation starting from ladies' start going a little on men's slope and then going back to ladies' slope just before the section called "Hoelle" (hell).

These little variations, never practiced before, could cause some troubles for early starters.

Maze, already Overall winner, is aiming the cup of Super-G, she has a good margin to defend from Julia Mancuso.
Fenninger is back from an injury but from downhill's training seems she's feeling well.
Other hot names are the germans Hoefl-Riesch, who's from Garmisch, and Rebensburg, winner of last World Cup Super-G.

h2h Ross - E.Curtoni - pick Curtoni 3 units @2.15 Lost -3
Mainly against Ross, bib #2, while Curtoni is #14.
Curtoni seems to have a great feeling with this place, and her results are constant enough.
Ross has highs and lows.

h2h Weirather - Sejersted - pick Sejersted 1 unit @2.25 Lost -1
Little shoot against Weirather who hasn't entirely recovered from an injury in late december and her results have been pretty disappointing since then.
Sejersted still struggling to find some top spot, but she's little leveled up since the Championships.
Weirather #3, Sejersted #6.

h2h Gut - Fenninger - pick Fenninger 3 units @1.76 Won +2.28
Close match-up, but overall results are in favour of Fenninger that is more constant while Gut can have very high highs and very low lows.

-1.72

Not a great race on a course not so difficult, and with snow early worn.
After very few numbers "2nd tier" athletes really struggled to make a good time even though the perfarmance was mistake-less.
Weirather bib #3, Hosp bib #1 and Ruiz Castillo bib #4 were leading in this order up to the top seeded starters.
Weirather's lead held, and the girl from Liechtenstein maged her first career win, ahead of Maze and Mancuso, tied at+.12 from the leader. Mancuso keeps her chance to rip the Super-G Cup off Maze.