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Petra and the counter-overtake on Gut-Behrami after the triumph in the first slalom of Are, with another huge chance tomorrow. And on Saturday Martina Peterlini will play for a place in the finals: she is 26th, one point from whoever precedes her ...
Friday 12 March 2021 6 minutes reading time
A Swedish night with very little blue, indeed nothing in the points, given that the only two athletes registered in the slalom of Are came out in the second heat. If for Irene Curtoni it does not change too much, with the current 15th place in the specialty cup and a reassuring margin to participate in the Lenzerheide finals, today's mistake could cost a lot to Martina Peterlini, who in Saturday's encore match he will play everything to get his first pass for the final act of the World Cup.
The thirty has dropped from 22nd to 26th place, just one point behind Nastasia Noens and from that 25th place needed to enter: at the same time, however, she finds herself at -1 an athlete in great ascent like the Slovenian Slokar and -2 the Swedish Wikstroem. Also considering the starting bib with these track conditions, for Martina it will be a mission that is anything but simple.
It was Petra Vlhova's night again, however, with the Slovakian who today pulled a shoulder in view of the absolute World Cup, where she now commands with 64 points over Lara Gut-Behrami and in a few hours she will be able to stretch further before Lenzerheide , but also for an encore in the slalom cup, having 85 points ahead of Shiffrin and 90 over Liensberger, who today folded to obtain the 20th career success, the 12th in slalom, the sixth of a season that is consecrating her in total way. “It's a great victory, it's worth a lot but we can't sit down right now - said Petra after the race to the FIS microphones - There is another very important race tomorrow, we need to recover better and we have seen how much it is. difficult to stay ahead in these conditions ".
With the eighth podium in slalom (there are nine total in CdM) without winning, of which six in the season of the explosion, and the double world title in Cortina, with four second places from Semmering in Zagreb, Flachau and precisely tonight at Are, it could be said that Katharina Liensberger should be disappointed that she has not yet won her first World Cup victory, but the reaction of the world champion is quite different. "Given how the first heat went and the difficulty of the second, I'm really happy to have handled the situation so well - said the 23-year-old from Vorarlberg to the ORF - I know, I didn't win but I'm happy with this second. place, it's always fun to be on the podium with Petra and Mikaela ”.
Certainly less smiling than the Austrian, a Mikaela Shiffrin who paid an important mistake in the second heat, finishing third at 64 cents from Vlhova, but with the podium number 103 in her pocket after two consecutive victories (in the cup, in the middle the bronze in the world race) in its specialty. For pearl n ° 70 in the cup, maybe it could be a matter of hours ...
“In the 2nd heat I made a mistake, today was not easy at all. I'll try again tomorrow ”. And you can be sure that he will do everything to get back to the front ...
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