Alpine Skiingwomen's world cup
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Everything is ready for the weekend in Austria. Goggia, at the start with the 16th: "Happy with my escalation in this specialty, I only think about skiing well".
Friday 27 December 2019 5 minutes reading time
After the lost weekend in Val d''Isère and eleven days after the giant triumph of Courchevel which saw Federica Brignone obtain the first seasonal victory and the red bib of leader in the specialty, the women's World Cup will return to Lienz.
The weekend in East Tyrol will propose the fourth season giant on Saturday (10.15 the 1st heat, the second at 13.30), the third slalom on Sunday. And the blues arrive there with great enthusiasm, after finishing in the morning on the snows of Dobbiaco, before moving to nearby Lienz. In addition to the "trident" Brignone-Bassino-Goggia, they will be at the starting gate for the challenge between the wide doors Irene Curtoni, Roberta Midali, Lara Della Mea, Laura Pirovano and Valentina Cillara Rossi.
For Brignone, the return to the "Schlossberg" two years after the triumph of the 2017 edition (last year we ran to Semmering in the same period of the year, as in the classic alternation between the Austrian locations), when he burned for a handful cents Rebensburg and Shiffrin, means to live the leadership with the utmost serenity. “I will continue to have a free mind, otherwise I would unconsciously pull the handbrake - the words of the Aosta Valley to fisi.org - It was nice to spend a few hours in the family, now I want to have fun and try it in giant but also in slalom.
Nobody has seen the track conditions, here it is usually always kept well and hard; there is never one door like the other, it turns around and over and it is an old-fashioned track. I want to close 2019 with a confirmation, and then arrive in the new year trying to collect many other satisfactions ".
Marta Bassino, after Killington's victory, finished seventh in Courchevel: “In Lienz we will find a busy track, with a hard bottom despite the little snow. I am happy with how I am skiing - explains Cuneo - and on Saturday I will try to do my best to continue the positive streak of this year in giant. "
Finally Sofia Goggia, who will start with the number 16 after entering the 30 of specialties and having previously reached 500 points in terms of absolute WCSL: “In Soelden I was 64, in Killington the 54, in Courchevel on 31 and Saturday a far better number. I am satisfied with the escalation, even if lately I have not trained much in this specialty - confesses Bergamo - I will only think about skiing well, then we will deal with the stopwatch. Two years ago I did not go very well, but I was struggling in leaps and bounds that season. I like the presence of many bumps, it will be like taking a dip in the past â€.
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SHIFFRIN Mikaela
BASSINO Marta
LIENSBERGER Katharina
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