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Shiffrin in Bansko has returned to winning downhill, over two years after Lake Louise, and now it is scary even in the race to the downhill cup. It wasn't all that simple though ...
Friday 24 January 2020 3 minutes reading time
With that technically perfect skiing, she literally danced on a track that put the best downhill skiers in the world in difficulty.
It is said that the "Marc Girardelli" is not a real speed track and perhaps it is also so, but certainly Mikaela Shiffrin has enchanted in Bansko today, going to take the second victory of the career downhill (65th overall and fifth of the season), besides two years after that 2 December 2017 in Lake Louise. Just in Canada the other podium of the season had arrived in the discipline and, even if he skipped the Zauchensee race, Mikaela is suddenly running for the specialty World Cup, second now 37 points behind Corinne Suter.
Did it all seem so simple? Macchè, also because the American champion had to live with a slight flu state, but she can only be very happy with this triumph that especially Petra Vlhova moves away from the general standpoint, more than a Federica Brignone still clinging to 280 points away. “It was a great challenge on such a difficult track - Shiffrin explained in the post race - Today it was impossible not to make mistakes, but let's say I tried to limit them. This success has arrived, but it is an open battle here and tomorrow it will be very tough ... ".
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