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In Sankt Moritz a crazy day given by the mistress of the queen discipline: with her left hand just operated on, Sofia invents yet another masterpiece by beating Stuhec (who returns to the podium) and Weidle. Great fourth Shiffrin who defends the leadership in the general classification, Curtoni from the top ten and Pirovano makes everyone tremble, before sighing with relief.
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Once again, simply heroic, when all seems lost and instead she goes beyond the limit of madness, returning to the race with a hand operated on for fifteen hours, for the compound fracture of two metacarpals.
And she goes on to win, for the twentieth time in her career, reaching Federica Brignone among the most successful blue women in the history of the CdM, an incredible Sofia Goggia in the bis descent of Sankt Moritz, the real one starting from the top.
An unparalleled courage, to give Italdonne the fifth success in eleven races of the season (and the 999th podium for blue skiing in the cup, including the men's sector), the third personal result after the double win in Lake Louise and yesterday's second place , brought home with a broken left hand.
The tests had spoken very clearly, Sofia here had an enormous margin over all her rivals and today she was able to demonstrate it, albeit partly conditioned by the injury, with that hug to Dr. Panzeri, president of the FISI medical commission, who summed up the '' yet another miracle signed by Goggia: it is a special podium for many reasons, also for the second place, 43 cents from the Bergamo area, of Ilka Stuhec who finds a top 3 almost 4 years after the two days of Cortina in January 2019 which had preceded by the encore World Cup of Are for the Slovenian, reborn with the change of materials.
Kira Weidle closes third, 52 cents away, ahead of a very high profile Mikaela Shiffrin, fourth at 61 cents to take another very heavy 50 pts in terms of the general classification (which she now leads with 50 lengths precisely compared to Sofia Goggia). Then a trio of disappointed Austrians, with Huetter showing his usual speed, but messing around a bit and finishing fifth at + 0"75, ahead of Ortlieb, Puchner seventh over a second behind and Curtoni, today 8th at 1 ”16 after the triumph of 24 hours earlier.
What a thrill in Italy for Laura Pirovano, who gleans with her left ski just before the finish line (cut in 15th position, third best blue in the standings) and falls to the ground, but fortunately without any consequences.
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