Hector chases Bassino, new super challenge in Semmering: "Hirscher is my model, Shiffrin already sets a record this year"

On Christmas day, Sara spoke to SVT readers, projecting herself towards the two giants of Tuesday and Wednesday, crucial in the fight for the specialty championship with Marta.

Sunday 25 December 2022 5 minutes reading time

We don't want to reduce it to a challenge between Marta Bassino and Sara Hector, but the first two giants of the season have clearly told us that the two current queens of the specialty, for performance and continuity of results, are precisely the Cuneo area, that the crystal ball she conquered it in 2021, and the reigning Olympic champion who lost that cup in the last race, after having dominated much of last season, conditioned by the injury suffered on the evening in Are. Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 December in Semmering, there will be an important double appointment on the "Panorama", with the blue who presents herself with a red bib and a 40-point margin compared to the Swede, still looking for her first success this year. given that Hector finished third in Killington, immediately behind Bassino who came within 7 cents of the winner Gut-Behrami, and second in Sestriere folded by 11 cents from Marta herself. This afternoon, Sara opened up to the readers of "SVT", her country's specialized site, which organized a chat with the fans while the Sandviken giant was heading towards Semmering, she who has been living in Austria since last winter to optimize logistics and, in recent days, she trained again on the "Aloch", in that Val di Fassa of which she is now also an ambassador. "I was able to stay with mum and dad, just enough to have a nice Christmas - the words of Sara who projected herself towards the Semmering races with the right spirit - The form has been good since the beginning of the season, I hope it continues as well as a team, since we are a great group and super results are coming (from the slalom victory of Swenn Larsson to the placings of the very young Aronsson Elfman, ed). I try to set one goal at a time and live every day with enthusiasm. I made my cup debut in 2009, at 17, but I think I still have a few years ahead of me, my body responds well and I have a lot of stimuli". When asked about the model in the world of skiing, Hector replies that “there are many, but one of them is Marcel Hirscher. In a general sense, I think the attitude my mother always had of focusing on what you can change is an example that guides me”. The 30-year-old Swedish gigantist has an important friendship with Mikaela Shiffrin and, when asked about the possibility of the leader of the general to beat Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 successes in CdM already this year (she is at -9, first c ''it is Lindsey Vonn who has five more hits than her compatriot), the answer is clear. "It's absolutely possible, but obviously my companions and I will try to... slow it down as much as possible".

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