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Ester is the first success in a World Cup super-g, after suffering for days in "her" descent. "I thought I had made a lot of mistakes, at the finish I was surprised by the time". Like in PyeongChang ...
Sunday 20 December 2020 3 minutes reading time
It comes out when you least expect it, even more so if you see her suffer (even physically, she was not at all well with her back) for days between tests and downhill races in Val d''Isère that could not satisfy her, she now ready in the queen discipline to always play it, on any terrain.
Oreiller-Killy seemed to have rejected Ester Ledecka, then here is the masterpiece pulled out of an immeasurable talent, able in eight days to win first at the seasonal debut in the parallel snowboard World Cup in Cortina (literally dominating all the rivals), then to take the first seasonal super-g on ... skis. Red bib, therefore, like last year after the victory of Lake Louise in downhill, until today the only one in his game bag if we talk about CdM.
It is the second super-g at high levels conquered by the 25-year-old from Prague, however, if we consider the Olympic pearl of PyeongChang, for the umpteenth confirmation that that sensational result was anything but casual. That time it was a single penny that sentenced Anna Veith to silver, this time it took three to break Corinne Suter. Yet, Ester's surprise, confided in the parterre after her trial, was similar to that day in Korea. "I was not and still am not very happy with my performance, if I have to be honest - said Ledecka - I thought I had made many mistakes, I was very surprised by the time once I crossed the finish line".
The Czech champion adds an important detail in his opinion: “I consider this success more important than the Olympic one, in the sense that here in the World Cup you have to beat all the best athletes in the lot, but at the Games there are only four per nation. The only one absent was Mikaela (Shiffrin, ed) ”.
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