Fighting for the female general, the first descent of Val d''Isère has changed almost nothing

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The World Cup rankings after the start of the first speed weekend: Bassino takes 15 pt, Vlhova 5, Brignone dry like Shiffrin ... resting.

Friday 18 December 2020 7 minutes reading time

The first of the two descents planned in Val d''Isère has changed almost nothing, at the top of the general classification of the Women's World Cup. Petra Vlhova, definitely not at ease on the Oreiller-Killy, has extended to +150 on Mikaela Shiffrin, but the choice of the American to skip this block of races so far has done little damage, if we think that the Slovakian has collected only 5 points quest '' today, while Marta Bassino moved to -2 from second place, taking home 15. The "zero" that weighs, in the fight between the big names, is that of Federica Brignone considering the potential for an excellent result for the Aosta Valley, who thus remains fifth behind Michelle Gisin, far from brilliant. It is useless to deepen the analysis on the specialty cup, given that we are only at the dawn of the season with eight races scheduled, but it can be seen that the most anticipated women are still there in front, with the exception of course of the unfortunate Nicole Schmidhofer (who won the crystal ball in the 2018/19 vintage) already out of the game. With a view to WCSL descent, there is a lot of Italy up there with four athletes (Brignone, Curtoni, Goggia and Bassino in order) among the top 10 in the world, excluding Schmidhofer from this list (with the Cuneo woman who had 1 for the second descent, missing also Mikaela Shiffrin). Leading by a really huge margin is Corinne Suter, then Ledecka and Gut-Behrami before Brignone and Ortlieb. WOMEN'S DOWNHILL WORLD CUP RANKING (1/8) 1st Corinne Suter 100 pt, 2nd Sofia Goggia 80, 3rd Breezy Johnson 60, 4th Ilka Stuhec 50, 5th Nina Ortlieb 45, 6th Ester Ledecka 40, 7th Tamara Tippler 36, 8th Lara Gut-Behrami 32 , 9th Ragnhild Mowinckel 29, 10th Elena Curtoni 26, 11th Kira Weidle 24, 12th Stephanie Venier 22, 13th Priska Nufer 20, 14th Laura Pirovano 18, 15th Kajsa Vickhoff Lie 16, 16th Marta Bassino 15, 21st Francesca Marsaglia 10, 27th Nadia Delago 4. WOMEN'S GENERAL WORLD CUP RANKING (7/34) 1st Petra Vlhova 425 pt, 2nd Mikaela Shiffrin 275, 3rd Marta Bassino 273, 4th Michelle Gisin 269, 5th Federica Brignone 248, 6th Katharina Liensberger 220, 7th Lara Gut-Behrami 189, 8th Sara Hector 174 , 9th Sofia Goggia 166, 10th Katharina Troops 154, 11th Wendy Holdener 126, 12th Paula Moltzan 114, 13th Corinne Suter 111, 13th Tessa Worley 111, 15th Franziska Gritsch 96, 25th Elena Curtoni 58, 26 Irene Curtoni 56, 54th Laura Pirovano 18, 64th Martina Peterlini 11, 67th Francesca Marsaglia 10, 84th Nadia Delago 4, 88th Marta Rossetti 2. WCSL FEMALE DESCENT 1st Corinne Suter 524 pt, 2nd Ester Ledecka 326, 3rd Lara Gut-Behrami 288, 4th Federica Brignone 284, 5th Nina Ortlieb 252, 6th Elena Curtoni 245, 7th Stephanie Venier 229, 8th Mikaela Shiffrin 228 , 9th Sofia Goggia 224, 10th Nicole Schmidhofer (inf.) 203, 11th Ilka Stuhec 198, 11th Marta Bassino 198, 13th Kira Weidle 191, 14th Viktoria Rebensburg (ret.) 188, 15th Francesca Marsaglia 187 , 19th Nadia Fanchini (rit.) 148, 22nd Nicol Delago (inf.) 135, 29th Laura Pirovano 79, 41st Nadia Delago 24, 58th Verena Gasslitter 1.

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