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The winner of the Garmisch descent, with her fourth seal in the CdM, is also Sofia Goggia's real rival for the specialty cup. The emotion of Flury and Huetter for two very special podiums.
Saturday 29 January 2022 5 minutes reading time
A Switzerland that dominates in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and who knows what would have happened without Joana Haehlen's sensational final mistake, given that the hat-trick was very close.
Corinne Suter and Jasmine Flury gave the red-cross team a brace in the last pre-Olympic descent, with the world champion half a second ahead of her teammate and today unstoppable for everyone. Of course, many rivals were missing, starting with Sofia Goggia, who would also have been the big favorite on Kandahar 1, but the Swiss team nevertheless sent a good signal in Beijing, or rather Yanqing, after suffering a lot in the first part of the season. for that fall in training, at the end of September, which cost several weeks of work and an almost completely lost confidence.
In Bavaria here is the first seasonal gem for an athlete who has always made consistency at the highest levels her trademark: today is the fourth victory in the World Cup, the second in Garmisch where she won (surprisingly) in the super-g of 2020, and there are 69 points to be recovered in Goggia in what promises to be the new duel for the descent crystal ball. Of course, if the rider from Bergamo is at least in a position to play for it by returning for the two races at the end of February in Crans-Montana (with the Olympic dream a couple of weeks before ...).
“I didn't start the season well, but now I'm growing race after race - Suter explained to Giulia Candiago's FIS microphones - I felt good sensations going down, and when I ski well I immediately realize it. The Olympic Games? It is not easy to stay focused on these races, it is no coincidence that there are many girls missing and I hope that the injured athletes will return soon. Today, however, I tried to compete with my head free from this ".
If for compatriot Jasmine Flury the first podium of her downhill career arrived, the second in CdM over 4 years after that incredible super-g conditioned by the wind in Sankt Moritz, and won by the girl from the Canton of Grisons, today was a very special race for Cornelia Huetter.
A champion tormented by injuries, the 29-year-old Austrian, returned to a podium almost 38 months after her last downhill race in Lake Louise, passing through (but also before that weekend in Canada) for an incredible series of accidents , to which was also added a positivity to Covid (with symptoms) in the middle of the season, when it had already returned to good levels. "Now this sequence is over -" Conny "told the ORF after the race - I hope to find the strength to compete well tomorrow, but in the meantime I am very happy with this result that I was partly waiting for, since I had the base speed on this track. This is also why I was nervous today before the race ... ”.
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