The "zero" of Goggia, the few points of Vlhova, the expectation of Shiffrin: the situation of a cup still very open

The rankings after the women's descent of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee: for the blue there are always 309 points to recover from the American, who will have to decide whether to compete in Cortina, while the Slovak now has to change gear in super-g. Gut-Behrami, to hope to get back into the fight, has to put in a sensational series.

Saturday 15 January 2022 6 minutes reading time

A day from "zero to zero" between the three athletes fighting for the absolute World Cup. The exit of Sofia Goggia in the fourth seasonal descent weighs, of course, in the run-up of the Bergamo rider to the top of a general classification that sees Mikaela Shiffrin always with 50 points over Petra Vlhova, who in turn has collected very little from today's race, and 309 on the dominatrix of speed, who must make the most of the three consecutive weekends dedicated to her disciplines, before the Olympic Games. With Shiffrin still in the pits in the super-g on Sunday (it is not certain that the American disputes the stage of Cortina, even if on that track she has always done very well even downhill), a bruised Goggia will still have to get heavy points to stay in full swing. race, while from behind Federica Brignone and Lara Gut-Behrami will have a good chance, in a race perfect for their characteristics; certainly, the Aosta Valley and Ticino women have more than 500 points of detachment from the top, but at least for the final podium they are not cut off. Cup downhill chapter: the absence of Breezy Johnson, aching knee after a fall in training and waiting to return to Cortina, somehow saved Goggia's leadership, always at +60 on the American, and there don't seem to be any others rivals who can fit into the dispute, considering Corinne Suter's not exceptional form (since the beginning of the season), who is at -119 and behind Ramona Siebenhofer. Amazing 6th place for Nadia Delago, who can think of fighting for the top 3 in the next five scheduled seasonal runs. In the WCSL, the youngest of the Gardena sisters goes back to the first group, breaking into 8th position in front of Elena Curtoni, 9th, with Ledecka on the "border" (not a good position for the Czech in an Olympic key) and Brignone again not too far from the top 10, naturally led by Goggia ahead of Suter, Johnson and Gut-Behrami. WOMEN'S DOWNHILL WORLD CUP RANKING (4/9) 1st Sofia Goggia 300 pt, 2nd Breezy Johnson 240, 3rd Ramona Siebenhofer 184, 4th Corinne Suter 181, 5th Mirjam Puchner 166, 6th Nadia Delago 162, 7th Kira Weidle 142, 8th Lara Gut-Behrami 122 , 9th Federica Brignone 110, 10th Cornelia Huetter 101, 11th Christine Scheyer 99, 12th Marie-Michele Gagnon 89, 13th Ilka Stuhec 87, 14th Ragnhild Mowinckel 77, 15th Elena Curtoni 76, 17th Nicol Delago 64 , 30th Francesca Marsaglia 25, 34th Marta Bassino 9. WOMEN'S GENERAL WORLD CUP RANKING (21/37) 1st Mikaela Shiffrin 966 pt, 2nd Petra Vlhova 916, 3rd Sofia Goggia 657, 4th Sara Hector 582, 5th Federica Brignone 447, 6th Lara Gut-Behrami 443, 7th Wendy Holdener 414, 8th Ramona Siebenhofer 413 , 9th Michelle Gisin 385, 10th Ragnhild Mowinckel 351, 11th Lena Duerr 348, 12th Katharina Liensberger 343, 13th Breezy Johnson 322, 14th Tessa Worley 312, 15th Elena Curtoni 308, 16th Marta Bassino 298, 28 Nadia Delago 167, 53rd Nicol Delago 83, 56th Francesca Marsaglia 80, 84th Martina Peterlini 25, 87th Roberta Melesi 22, 96th Karoline Pichler 15, 108th Anita Gulli 8. WCSL FEMALE DESCENT 1st Sofia Goggia 588 pt, 2nd Corinne Suter 487, 3rd Breezy Johnson 455, 4th Lara Gut-Behrami 388, 5th Kira Weidle 349, 6th Ramona Siebenhofer 327, 7th Mirjam Puchner 248, 8th Nadia Delago 229 , 9th Elena Curtoni 219, 10th Ester Ledecka 217, 11th Tamara Tippler 198, 12th Ilka Stuhec 185, 13th Marie-Michele Gagnon 178, 14th Federica Brignone 168, 15th Jasmine Flury 158, 16th Laura Pirovano ( inf.) 145, 24th Nicol Delago 95, 31st Francesca Marsaglia 59, 36th Marta Bassino 35, 51st Roberta Melesi 5.

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