Combined La Thuile canceled, 7 races remain and everything is even more open for the "coppone"

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The women's white circus will restart from Are on 12 March and a return of Mikaela Shiffrin, as leaked in the last hours, cannot be excluded.

Sunday 1 March 2020 4 minutes reading time

A virtually inevitable cancellation, with a lot of snow falling in the night in La Thuile and unfavorable weather forecasts even during the morning. And so, the discipline cup, which ends up in the hands of Federica Brignone, ends with two combined matches compared to the four scheduled (the one in Val d''IsÃ¨re was also definitively canceled): an absolute first for Fede, who had already won this ranking last year, but without assigning the crystal ball. Now, however, what could happen in terms of the absolute World Cup? There are 7 games left and Brignone has 153 points on Mikaela Shiffrin and 189 on Petra Vlhova. We will start from Are with a triptych that includes parallel slalom on Thursday 12 March, giant on Friday 13 and slalom on Saturday 14, and then move on to the four tests (one by specialty) of the finals of Cortina. There is an indiscretion that has been circulating in the last hours and must be taken as such: it concerns Mikaela Shiffrin and the flight booking for the return to Europe, with the desire to return to compete starting from the weekend of Ofterschwang on the 7th -8 March, as has been rumored for some time. After the cancellation of the German stage, however, everything would still be at stake and there is no certainty on the possibility that the American star will dispute the last seven races. Remaining at "only" 153 points from Brignone, it is clear that she could still be the favorite for the fourth consecutive cup, despite considering all the variables of the case for a return that would still be very complicated on a psychological level and beyond. With a ten-day break in front, however, the scenarios for a three-way fight open up again and it would be the best for the show to see three champions like Brignone, Shiffrin and Vlhova playing the absolute crystal ball.

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