Haehlen is a lightning bolt on Mont Lachaux, cards reshuffled in the 1st test and Marsaglia brilliant

Towards the two descents of the weekend in Crans-Montana: the best time is of the Swiss, clearly ahead of Mowinckel, with Francesca Marsaglia 4th at 89 cents. Ok Curtoni, but also Vlhova and Brignone close and just outside the top ten, with Goggia one tenth behind them.

Thursday 24 February 2022 4 minutes reading time

A first test that shuffles the cards, the one seen today on Mont Lachaux in Crans-Montana, in view of the resumption of the Women's World Cup scheduled for Saturday and Sunday with the seventh and eighth seasonal descents. Joana Haehlen, in reality, could be very dangerous even in the race considering her state of form (also demonstrated by the 6th place in the Olympic downhill) and the adaptation to such a technical track. The Swiss made a void, especially in the final section compared to Ragnhild Mowinckel, 2nd time with 65 hundredths of a second. There have been many insertions after the group of the best twenty in the world, with Laura Gauche third at 8 tenths and Francesca Marsaglia, who started with bib 30, great 4th at 89 cents, after having commanded with the best absolute time until the middle of the track. Nadine Fest is fifth (+ 0 "92), Jacqueline Wiles sixth at 1" 15 and a perky Elena Curtoni 7 ^ at 1 "31, with many chances on the track where she got on the podium, together with Goggia, in 2021. The Valtellinese preceded Scheyer, Gagnon, Ager, Maier, Venier and, out of the top ten with 1 "70 late, divided by a cent between them, we find Petra Vlhova and Federica Brignone, who in these two descents will have the opportunity to shorten in the general on Mikaela Shiffrin, absent in Crans-Montana, as well as naturally this possibility will be there for Sofia Goggia. A test that began quietly for the Bergamo-based, who then put together a couple of good partials in the "heart" of the Mont Lachaux track, not pushing to the bottom and finishing 17th at 1 "82 from Haehlen, between Puchner and Weidle as far away as many other big names, from Gut-Behrami (2 "57) to Corinne Suter (3" 38) and Ester Ledecka (4 "22), without forgetting Nina Ortlieb's return to the track, albeit only for testing, with the Austrian who finished at 5 ”06 in the first competitive approach after more than 13 months of absence. (updating)

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