The unlucky season of Wendy Holdener and the return home after the positive test. "It hurts to lose home games"

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Confirmed the positivity of the Swiss champion at Covid, here is her message after the farewell to the finals in Lenzerheide and the early conclusion of a year where everything has turned wrong. And just when he had found the best shape ...

Friday 19 March 2021 3 minutes reading time

A quick test and on Thursday evening the news of the positivity, with the subsequent PCR test and the confirmation that Covid had hit her, as well as her former coach Klaus Mayrhofer, from whom she had separated just forty days ago , just before the Cortina World Cup which went a bit like the whole 2020/21 World Cup season. Wendy Holdener did not have a lucky year and also had to give up the Lenzerheide finals, returned home today and forced to quarantine before calmly resuming training. No medals in the world championship event and three podiums in CdM all arrived in slalom, from Flachau to Jasna, on the third step of the podium as in the second slalom of Are. Between the races in Slovakia and Sweden, the 27-year-old from the Canton of Schwyz had shown that she had finally found the best form in her favorite discipline, definitely approaching the Vlhova-Liensberger-Shiffrin trio. Then the cold shower, on the eve of the most anticipated races for her, who in Lenzerheide obtained two of her three World Cup victories, the last of which in the combined dominated on January 26, 2018. "It's not how I hoped to close the season, with the positivity to the Covid test - wrote Wendy on social media - I received a perfect gift for my days at home (he jokes showing his photo with a huge container of popcorn). Thanks everyone for the help and the nice words, I'm fine. And thanks to Lenzerheide for the great job done: it hurts to miss the home races ”.

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