Alpine SkiingThe cup of Tomba
The second of the two slalom in Lech that bring the White Circus towards the Christmas holidays passer & agrave; history. All fans in fact know where they were during the race in which Alberto Tomba writes perhaps the page pi & ugrave; incredible of his glorious career.
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After dominating the slalom the previous day, the champion blue plays with some heartache for the second race too, making a mistake in the upper part that seems to take away safety and relegate him away from the summit; a lower extraordinary remedy and instead allows him to place themselves to the square d & rsquo; honor, trailing by just two cents from Thomas Sykora, gi & agrave; according to the previous day, and once again the protagonist on home snow. The battle for the win also includes the usual Jure Ko & scaron; ir, Thomas Fogd & ouml; and Michael Tritscher: the first five are enclosed in 36 cents.
In the second Alberto Tomba writes the history of the sport. After destroying rivals taking the lead at the top abysmal, the Bomb make a glaring error, which would have forced any other athlete to retire: cross your toes, stops, takes the door thanks to a superhuman power, remains in balance on one ski only, and is back on track again. So not only can you stay on track, but recovering to push his way pass the lead with 77 cents margin of Tritscher, top of the league so far and now sure of the third podium in four races of the season. Needless to point out that without the & rsquo; error, Alberto would go ahead with pi & ugrave; two seconds ahead of the rest of the world.
Departing Sykora is in a situation almost surreal: Tomb know that was wrong, but he also knows that & egrave; went like a train. What to do? L & rsquo; Austrian intelligently interprets the race, attacking the upper & ndash; so that all & rsquo; intermediate & egrave; trailing by just 16 cents & ndash; and managing the bottom. Not enough for two cents the victory goes to the Tomb, with Sykora second as Twenty hours before, Tritscher third Fogd & ouml; fourth and Ko & scaron; ir sixth, also passed by Ole Christian Furuseth. Getting worse instead l & rsquo; the other Italian, which points to the square just Kurt Ladst & auml; tter twenty-second place trailing by 4 & rdquo; 81.
This race shows that Tomb is going through perhaps the best time of his career, both physically and mentally. Not even in 1988 or in 1992 had managed to dominate as in the beginning of 1994, and, contrary to the two seasons mentioned, no one can see the Zurbriggen or even worse the Accola to break his eggs in the basket. The ability & agrave; to win the coveted World Cup becomes concrete, also because & eacute; rivals pi & ugrave; Hazardous continue to struggle: Kjetil Andre & Aring; modt ends eighteenth, G & uuml; nther Mader does not qualify for the second round and the unfortunate Michael Von Gr & uuml; NiGen & egrave; victim of a & rsquo; forked that causes a dislocated shoulder and he let & agrave; losing what had been in excellent form until then. Cos & Igrave; the champion Emilia goes on the run with 450 points against the 294 of & rsquo; 252 Swiss and Norwegian. Do not underestimate the old lion Marc Girardelli, eighth and author of the best time in the second heat, ready to return protagonist as usual from January onwards. L & rsquo; next day in the giant of & rsquo; Alta Badia you will understand & agrave; if indeed the crystal ball potr & agrave; take the road of & rsquo; Italy vent & rsquo; years after the fourth triumph of Gustav Th & ouml; ni.
SLALOM LECH December 21, 1994 & ndash; FINAL STANDINGS 1. TOMB Alberto (ITA) 1: 44.73 2. SYKORA Thomas (AUT) +0.02 3. Michael Tritscher (AUT) +0.77 4. FOGD & Öland; Thomas (SWE) +0.95 5. Ole Christian Furuseth (NOR) +1.24
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