Katharina Liensberger's dreams, the most awaited woman in Austria

The slalomgigantista of Vorarlberg, put aside the problems of last summer, is preparing for the best and already with many days of skiing behind him. In addition, there is a new love.

Wednesday 22 July 2020 3 minutes reading time

She is the most awaited woman in Austria, especially as regards the technical disciplines where the female Wunderteam is really struggling. Will the 2020/21 season be that of Katharina Liensberger's definitive explosion, perhaps with the first success in the World Cup? It is difficult to say, if we consider that Shiffrin and Vlhova are from another planet in slalom, while in giant the competition is simply frightening, but the 23 year old native of Vorarlberg is called to climb another step, once the problems have been put aside which certainly influenced them part of the last year of the World Cup, with the summer-autumn case linked to the materials and resolved only shortly before Levi's slalom. Now Liensberger has everything to do his best and has already started work on the track in the second half of May, taking advantage of the Soelden glacier for many days of skiing, where he also trained between late June and early July. Then the athletic preparation phase began, including a group meeting last week in Leogang, with the other Austrian slalomists. In addition, there is the recent engagement "presented" on social media and told to the "Kronen Zeitung": "I am happy, also because we can practice a lot of sport together and it is important". The first giant podium, conquered last December in Lienz in two days that saw her then conquer the 4th place in slalom and, the following week, the third place in the same discipline in Zagreb, cannot and should not more than enough for a talent like his. But it will not be easy to climb the last step, what it takes to win.

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