Alpine SkiingWomens Alpine
It & rsquo; really a & rsquo; bleeding in alpine skiing women: after the withdrawal of the many stars of the Austrian team, France's Marie Marchand-Arvier, & nbsp; the Swiss Dominique Gisin and & nbsp; Nadja Kamer, not counting the 'gap year of Slovenian & nbsp; Tina Maze, to abandon the & rsquo; & agrave activities; racing & egrave; Sweden's Jessica Lindell Vikarby.
Tuesday 14 July 2015 7 minutes reading time
& Ldquo; It & rsquo; time to face a new chapter in my life and for new challenges! Thank you all for your support. I will miss you! & Rdquo; This is the message left by the 31 year old Scandinavian on Twitter without specifying the reasons for withdrawal but the rumors already & agrave; a month and a half ago they were talking about back problems that Jessica could not resolve completely.
Born February 7, 1984 at Huddinge, in the county of Stockholm, Jessica Lindell Vikarby dispute the first FIS and the first national championships juniors & Outdoors; beginning of 2000. In December of the same year he made his debut in the European Cup, an event that did not will see & agrave; never place big treble instead to his third World Junior & conquer agrave; l & rsquo; gold in giant slalom in Serre-Chevalier in 2003. Meanwhile he made his debut in the World Cup October 26, 2002 closing with an incredible seventh place the giant S & ouml; Sölden starting with the number 59, just under two months later in Lenzerheide arrives even fourth and ninth in the combined downhill, specialty & agrave; which will & agrave; eighth at the World Championships in St. Moritz in 2003.
The future seems all of this phenomenal Swedish and instead in & rsquo; October 2003 came the first blow in the form of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and the side of his left knee and is training down to Saas Fee. Skip entire 2003-2004 season and makes it hard to return to the levels of the past, so that will have & agrave; wait 14 January 2006 to return among the top ten in the World Cup and finished seventh in the downhill in Bad Kleinkirchheim. 2 December 2007 with third place in the super-G in Lake Louise, always in super-G January 26, 2009 comes the first victory in Cortina d & rsquo; Ampezzo and six days after finishing third in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
It & rsquo; clearly one of the favorites in specialty & agrave; for the World Cup but get to & ograve; Twelfth and the next day, on February 4, while it is trying downhill standings, comes the second blow in the form of a fall in which he destroys the right knee ligament and anterior cruciate ligament tear inside. In subsequent seasons are only two among the top ten placings Cup, starting to be a bit & rsquo; PI & ugrave; in subsequent seasons, especially in giant, specialty & agrave; we do not say that so far had been marginal, because & eacute; Jessica had proved right in his Cup debut to handle it even among the wide doors, but almost.
His best season came in 2013-2014, with five podiums in giant and his second victory in the World Cup, the first in the specialty agrave ;, & Beaver Creek. Until & rsquo; last race fighting to win the trophy specialty & agrave ;, in fact, to the finals in Lenzerheide presents itself as a leader but a great Anna Fenninger winning the tears from his hands the cup despite finish third, his eighth and final Cup podium. Nell & rsquo; last winter because of physical problems forget the speed & agrave; not venturing more & ugrave; in super-G and downhill, specialty & agrave; where despite the injuries would limit had continued to race, and only focuses on the giant. Seventh place in his home race in & Aring; re & egrave; her 36 & deg; and final placement among the top ten Cup.
Ma & egrave; the World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek, on a track where he won the & rsquo; previous winter and where it is very well, that Jessica has a start d & rsquo; pride gets in fact the long-awaited medal, a bronze, in seven consecutive editions of the World Cup three consecutive Olympics had never been able to win. Closes his career with his 228th World Cup race, the giant M & eacute; ribel last March 22, in which & egrave; twenty-second. Swedish very unusual compared to the average of his countrymen are more & ugrave; oriented slalom (although Pernilla Wiberg and Anja P & auml; eople were huge multi-purpose), Jessica Lindell Vikarby & egrave; It was a technical skier but pi & ugrave; prone to speed & agrave; and without the serious injuries suffered his career, that & egrave; gi & agrave; It was still more & ugrave; that good, could have tutt & rsquo; other thickness. Good life outside of skiing Jessica!
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