Alpine Skiingwomen's world cup
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The World Cup will restart next Saturday and Sunday with the first two slaloms. It promises to be a spectacular battle and the Swiss will be there, after the fracture to the scaphoids.
Monday 15 November 2021 5 minutes reading time
After Lech / Zuers, it is time for the real start of the World Cup which, from Levi's weekend to the mid-March finals in Courchevel-Méribel, will experience four very intense months (with the Beijing Olympics to characterize the month of February ).
If the men will rest a few more days, it is time for slalom for the women's circuit, given that Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 there will be a double on the Finnish snow, the same proposal 12 months ago. And we are moving towards a truly beautiful confrontation between the three greats of the specialty, the world champion and holder of the cup, Katharina Liensberger, and Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova who skipped last Saturday's appointment in Vorarlberg thinking precisely of the two challenges. on the "Levi Black".
Not only that, however: in addition to Michelle Gisin, Kristin Lysdahl and all the other protagonists, with Martina Peterlini to lead Italy, there will be the return of two reference points of the discipline, albeit incredibly never winning in the World Cup among the narrow poles. Let's talk about Anna Swenn-Larsson and Wendy Holdener.
The Swede has not competed (at any level, not only in the cup) for 21 months, when on February 16, 2020 she lost 3 doors from the end of the slalom she was dominating in Kranjska Gora, that highly anticipated first triumph in the maximum circuit. The pandemic canceled the last races of that season, then at the beginning of last season the positivity within the Sweden team, Levi's slalom denied, and a dramatic month for Anna who tested positive at Covid in early December but, above all, he broke his ankle just as he came back inside. And so, no defense of the world silver won in Are 2019 and everything postponed to this Olympic season, with a mad desire to return immediately to fight for the podium.
Only in the last few hours, instead, a Wendy Holdener who, in the last month and a half, has had to struggle with the recovery from the fracture to both scaphoids remedied in an athletic training. Lost Soelden and Lech, the multiple world champion will be able to be there for the slalom opening, despite having a few days of training and maybe not very high expectations, even if a year ago she got two fourth places after breaking the fibula's head only at the beginning of September (in that case, he returned in time for Soelden). "Levi, I'm on my way - said Wendy on social media, explaining her recovery, with her return to the track in recent days in Davos with Gisin
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