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The Swiss has now won at least one podium in all the classic disciplines of skiing: on Sunday she will be scary on Podkoren, on a par with Worley. "I didn't think I did well in the second heat".
Saturday 16 January 2021 3 minutes reading time
They accompanied Marta Bassino to the podium of a thrilling giant in Kranjska Gora. Of course, at a "safe distance" from the Cuneo who dominated today on the Podkoren, but there were also two applause tests by Tessa Worley and Michelle Gisin, two credible rivals for the blue and all the other rivals also on Sunday, in second appointment on Slovenian snow.
The Frenchwoman, on the second consecutive podium after finding him in the giant number 2 in Courchevel, set the best time in the 2nd heat: "I didn't think I had a good race, I felt rigid - confessed the two-time world champion a Ski Chrono - I felt tossed in all directions, but obviously I turned the ski well. At every corner I kept encouraging myself and in the end it worked, I had to believe it ”.
Today was also a very important day for Michelle Gisin's career, increasingly solid in second place in the overall standings of a World Cup that sees the Swiss in the running. After the three podiums of the season in slalom, with the first career victory in Semmering, here for the 27 year old from Engelberg the first top 3 in giant of all her adventure in the World Cup. A figure that means becoming the second Swiss to succeed in the quest to get on the podium in the five mother disciplines of skiing, after a certain Vreni Schneider ...
“I am very happy because the giant podium was one of my great goals - she told RSI after the race - Now I have them all and I am proud because it is a dream that becomes reality. Sunday? I can't wait to start again, because on such a difficult track you get excited, it's a real war from the first to the last gate and I love this type of race ”.
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