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In Schladming a success of enormous value for the American champion, who definitively detaches Stenmark for victories in a single specialty. His emotions, the run-up of Vlhova and Goggia rejected and an uncertain program before the Olympics ...
Tuesday 11 January 2022 4 minutes reading time
It was the most difficult night, even more so after the fifth time, albeit only 42 cents from the top, of a slightly subdued first heat.
The feeling was that Kranjska Gora's fork (when he was virtually in command of the slalom on Podkoren), which added to 7th place in giant and a victory that was still missing after the stop for Covid on the eve of Lienz, had also taken away security from a formidable champion like Mikaela Shiffrin.
Then the decisive heat on Planai, on the big night in Schladming, changed everything: for the second time in seven seasonal slaloms Petra Vlhova was beaten, even if the Slovakian in the meantime can celebrate the World Cup of discipline with two races of '' advance, and also rejected in the general classification which sees her 55 points behind Mikaela. It is rumored that Shiffrin could skip most of the races before the Olympics, even the same speed weekend in Cortina which he hardly gave up in recent seasons, considering his feeling with the Olympia delle Tofane, and this would open a door also to Sofia Goggia in the fight against the "coppone".
But Shiffrin does not talk about this, but there are only tears in the first post-race interviews, with so much emotion from an absolute phenomenon that, in particular since the death of dad Jeff almost two years ago, is experiencing a second career different in many ways. points of view. From tonight, in any case, the 26-year-old native of Colorado is the athlete, female or male sector makes no difference, with more successes in CdM in a single discipline, a record that she shared with Ingemar Stenmark at 46 gems, for her in slalom and for the Swede in giant. "It is a privilege just to compete on this track - explained Mikaela, who in Schladming won the first of her four consecutive world titles in slalom, albeit only on a part of the Planai - We had the opportunity of a unique context and I wanted to do something big in an iconic place. It is a special victory ".
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