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MERIBEL (France) - Fifty days Sochi, here's the first installment of our small initiative that will take you up to the Olympics Russian, telling the exploits of the lucky "minnow" able to rip or even Olympic gold medals during'' to Favourites event at Five Rings. And there are stories like this ... Perfect for a quiet start with the feminine (in fact the entire podium was unexpected) in the downhill of the Games in Albertville in 1992. When the fog lifted for a moment at the top of the track, and a Canadian Trail, British Columbia, skiing divinely however, became the first athlete from his country to win the most coveted proof of alpine skiing ...
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Saturday, February 15, 1992, Meribel, France, home of fast races in the women's alpine ski tests. '' And the great day of the women's downhill, with four clear favorite at the start: the German Katia Seizinger,'' the Austrian dominated the World Cup, Petra Kronberger, the Swiss Bournissen and Heidi Zurbriggen. In the World Cup of that season, until then, had played five runs free; Santa Caterina, with the triumph of Bournissen, also 3rd in Grindelwald, Serre Chevalier (1st Kronberger); Schruns and Morzine (1st place in both cases for Katja Seizinger, also 2nd in Santa Caterina), Grindelwald, in fact, with the victory of Sabine Ginther, who was actually the favored n-1 caombinata.
Face Trail Du Roc de Fer, crazy, a labyrinth full of traps which is added, just'' s last, the presence of nuvolaglie laden with snow, rain and fog. Predictions literally jump into the air. On a plot too soccice with snow packed with moisture, the big female discesismo keep mistakenly lines and trajectories studied in a trial on the ground ahiloro much harder, even frozen.
The 27 year-old Canadian Kerrin Lee-Gartner, a resident of Calgary, a podium in downhill in Altenmarkt in December'' 90 (third), a woman from major events, in the season did not go bad at all, so far, always placing in the ten runs in the four played (missed Schruns), always between the 4th and 10th position. We say that is an outsider luxury. The race is a thriller for the minimum separations and the mist in the upper part. But when it comes down Kerrin, the fog suddenly rises in the initial section, where Candes raises less snow on the inputs faster. Compared to the tests, everything has changed, the difficulty of the jumps have disappeared, the speed was reduced to much more technical and athletes were unable to exploit their skills and their knowledge of style. The Canadian is not nothing wrong with bib 12 and is incredibly square to the command.
Kronberger and Seizinger are good in the most difficult, but they lose a'' infinite number of cents in the lower part, the most ruined. Perhaps the skis were not prepared to slide fast on the snow, maybe they also paid the safety or pressure, perhaps, simply, the three have earned medals in every way to win, simply. It will remain a mystery.
The girls defeated, however, and we have the usual, will not end more than curse Heinz Krecek, head of the FIS women's ski, which would have had to postpone the race for impracticability of field.
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