Peter Fill leads downhill skiers into the Olympic winter

The Canadian ski resort of Lake Louise has been the first World Cup station for speed specialists since 1994, and World Cup races have been held at the ski station in Banff National Park since 1980. The balance sheet from a South Tyrolean perspective: A local downhill skier stood at the top of the podium three times, Herbert Plank from Vipiteno won at the premiere in 1980, Peter Fill celebrated his first World Cup victory in 2008, and Dominik Paris was the winner in 2013. For women, Isolde Kostner was included in the Lake Louise winners' lists a total of four times between 1999 and 2001.

No race last year In 2016, the men's races (downhill and super-G) in Lake Louise had to be canceled due to lack of snow, so the defending champion is Aksel Lund Svindal, the Norwegian won in 2015 with a lead of 0,01 seconds over Peter Fill. Svindal also won the Super-G in 2015, ahead of Matthias Mayer (AUT) and Peter Fill.

The winner of the 2016 and 2017 Downhill World Cup, Peter Fill, most recently trained with his teammates Christof Innerhofer and Dominik Paris in Copper Mountain (USA). Werner Heel, Alexander Prast, Emanuele Buzzi, Henri Battilani, Guglielmo Bosca and Matteo Marsaglia prepared in Nakiska (CAN).

In Lake Louise, eight “Azzurri” are allowed to start in the downhill, and there are seven starting places in the Super-G. The results of the downhill training from Wednesday will provide information about who will be at the start of the races.

This weekend, the women will compete in a giant slalom and a slalom in Killington (USA), and a week later there will be two downhill runs and a super-G in Lake Louise on the racing calendar.

Lake Louise's program: Departure men, Saturday 20.15 p.m. (CET) Super-G men, Sunday 20 p.m. (CET)

Killington's program: Giant slalom women, Saturday 16/19 p.m. (CET) Slalom women, Sunday 16/19 p.m. (CET)

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Peter Fill leads downhill skiers into the Olympic winter

The Ski World Cup for the speed specialists begins in Lake Louise, with the downhill on Saturday and the Super-G on Sunday. The first downhill training is scheduled for Wednesday.

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