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On Saturday the penultimate super-g of the World Cup, the specialty leader from Valle d'Aosta speaks and with only Elena Curtoni who can undermine her. Eight blue at the start.
Friday 4 March 2022 5 minutes reading time
Federica Brignone can close the accounts with a race to spare, in a super-g World Cup that speaks only Italian, with three blue on the virtual podium of the discipline and six successes in seven races held in the maximum circuit, with the only regret related to the Olympics.
Sofia Goggia will not be there for the weekend in Lenzerheide which will end on Sunday with the giant, therefore in Brignone it will be enough to finish in front of Elena Curtoni, who follows her in the specialty ranking with 103 points late, to celebrate before the finals of Courchevel-Méribel. Saturday (10 am the start) at the eight blue gate, with Brignone and Curtoni flanked by Marta Bassino, Nadia Delago, Nicol Delago, Roberta Melesi, Francesca Marsaglia and Karoline Pichler. “It is nice to have three Italians in the first three places in the specialty ranking, a recognition for our team. This time Goggia will be missing, but both Elena and I want redemption after the Olympic competition that left us a bit of a bitter taste, because we were among the favorites and in the end we didn't get medals - says the Aosta Valley woman on the eve - And '' a very technical track, I have never raced on this track, because when we did a supergiant in 2016 valid for the combined, we passed in a different area, with a plane that ran in another direction and rejoined the finish line, while this time we will use the giant track that we did not do last year due to the cancellation due to bad weather.
There are three different snows: in the high spring snow where the ski crashes, in the central area it becomes more wintery, in the final part I seem to have seen strikethrough lines that they will use in giant on Sunday. Starting at 10 in the morning will almost always mean finding sun, it is a really demanding track, in the first free skiing lap I did not know which direction to go and we do not have references because it is new for everyone. We arrive at this appointment on the basis of a very beautiful season in supergiant, a track like that suits me. Certainly confidence is on my side, I managed to disconnect for three days after two months of continuing to ride and now I'm ready to launch myself from the gate again.
The reasons are not lacking, personally I like the end of the season because the temperatures rise, the sun comes and like every year it seems to me that time has flown. Between Lenzerheide, Are and Courchevel-Méribel will be fantastic races, here the Swiss will be dangerous with Gut-Behrami, Suter, Gisin and Nufer who are skiing very well. Hopes for the general classification? My first goal is to finish on the podium in the standings, Shiffrin and Vlhova are quite ahead of me (204 pt, ed), to worry them I would have to return from Crans-Montana with a few more points, but the game will close on Sunday 20 March, dreaming big costs nothing even if we know it will be very difficult ".
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