The cry of the Brignone tiger: "Now I'm solid in a giant, too bad for the podium". Bassino: "I struggled, but I'm calm"

The analysis of the two blue, fourth and seventh, protagonists of the giant of Kronplatz with Faith who also takes the first sub-group for the Olympic competition. Now we think of Beijing, with Marta announcing a very rich program ...

Tuesday 25 January 2022 5 minutes reading time

Fourth as in Lienz, but ever closer to the top of a discipline that had seen her in difficulty at the beginning of the season. Federica Brignone remained at the foot of the podium also in the giant of Kronplatz, but from the "Erta" towards ... Beijing, the winner of the 2020 cup sent an important Olympic signal, considering also that with today's 50 points and the absence of Lara Gut-Behrami, Fede has taken away from the Ticino the place in the first sub-group, a factor that could prove to be crucial in the challenge between the wide doors next February 7 on the Chinese snows (just think of what we saw today in the first heat ... ). “I did two solid heats at last - the valdostana analyzed satisfied at Physi.org - after I had done a bad heat in Lienz and an exceptional second, with the best time. Having two good ones is great news for my giant. It is the fourth time that I finish fourth in the last races for a matter of cents (in addition to Lienz and today, also in super-g in Cortina and Val d''Isère, ed); I would like to finish on the podium but, at this point, I hope it arrives at the right time. I'm sorry because I'm there, it's like I missed four podiums, but I'm still happy with today's two excellent heats. I was solid, I am confident because even today I trusted to try to attack and this was fundamental for me ”. Marta Bassino, seventh, missed the fourth podium in five editions of the great challenge on the "Erta", but she still says she is serene in her Olympic preparation, even if today, in fact, any talk about the possibility of still playing the Cup has vanished. of the Giant's World (and the final podium in the discipline is far away). “We were all close and I struggled in the final part - explains the woman from Cuneo - I'm calm, even if today I struggled a little more, because in training I'm doing well and I trained more in giant to regain fluidity. Clearly I have to get everything out in the race even if it's not easy. They are there, although not at the level of last year, but I am coming back and we will see. I am calm from a mental point of view, I will still have a few days of training before arriving in China. It counts to arrive well on the day of the Olympic competition, as I was taught by the last World Championships in which I arrived with a really solid skiing, this year went differently but we will see when we will be there. At the Olympics I will do the giant, the super-g, the combined and the team event and ... maybe even the slalom: a good program ". For her, no Garmisch and we are already thinking about the great five-circle dream.

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