Bassino smiles again, Brignone also for his fourth cup: "Super day with ... Federer"

The declarations of the blues after a super-g from Lenzerheide that does not see the Italian squadron (without Goggia) get on the podium as always happened during the season, but still achieve something important. The bitterness of Elena Curtoni: "I felt good, then ...". The joy of Karoline Pichler, at the best in career.

Saturday 5 March 2022 4 minutes reading time

The streak of eight consecutive races with at least one athlete on the podium was interrupted, after having won 6 of the 7 World Cup seasonal tests, but for the Italsuper-g today's race in Lenzerheide is worth however much. First of all for the conquest of the crystal ball, never won in the past by a blue, by Federica Brignone. Also, however, for the return up there of Marta Bassino, disappointed out of the Olympics and today great fourth, just two hundredths from the podium. And then there is the 13th position of Karoline Pichler, best career result for the South Tyrolean, with 4 blue in the World Cup finals since, apart from Brignone, Curtoni and Goggia (always in the first three places of the ranking specialty), is inside Marta Bassino, but Marsaglia and Melesi didn't make it. For Brignone, the only regret of the day was a placement, the ninth, which almost certainly means saying goodbye to dreams in the general, now 255 points (3rd place on par with Goggia) from Mikaela Shiffrin. "I am very happy for this milestone, I will finally receive a cup on a real podium - said Fede to Rai Sport microphones, referring to what happened in 2020 - I'm sorry for Elena, who had a stratospheric season, I personally didn't do a good one race, I felt slipping everywhere after a good start. I immediately lost confidence, but today it's okay also because I felt one of the greatest emotions, meeting my idol Roger Federer (literally overwhelmed in the parterre by a thousand requests for photos and autographs, ed). My best season? I don't think so, that of the general cup is of a higher level for what I have always dreamed of, certainly two medals and the super-g cup is a lot of stuff ... ”. Elena Curtoni, who had to recover 103 points in Brignone, on the eve of this penultimate super-g of the season, does not hide the disappointment, always intercepted on the microphone of Simone Benzoni (Rai Sport). "I touched with the shoe, I was a bit 'long in line and I threw myself in - analyzes her exit from the Valtellina - It's a shame because it was a super-g in my strings, I had started well and it would have been nice play it to the end with Faith. That's how it went, now I can't do anything about it ”.

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