25 May 2021

Only 65 competing in Speed in SLC

The first Speed World Cup of 2021 will take place this Friday in Salt Lake City. Surprisingly, only 25 females and 40 males are registered to compete. In practice, this means that several non-Speed specialists will advance to the final and possibly several Olympians will get some extra training. Tomoa Narasaki might just win as only four of the Top-25, and non of the Top-9, ranked in the 2019 World Cup will attend.

Among the females, five of the Top-12 in the 2019 rankings are registered to compete but besides that only 20 more females are listed. Among the Olympians, Aleksandra Miroslaw, has chosen to only participate in Speed and Aleksey Rubtsov has done the contrary, only competing in the Boulder WC's in Salt Lake City. It should be mentioned that also Michael Piccolruaz was missing from the Speed starting list and once we asked him why, he contacted his Italian federation and he was signed up.
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