2021 cortina world championships
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Shiffrin, the return to speed and a bronze race with a resounding error costing a resounding encore in super-g. Mikaela, however, wants to give all credit to Lara Gut-Behrami. And Livio Magoni himself applauds what the American star has done.
Thursday 11 February 2021 3 minutes reading time
She arrived at Rumerlo with 36 cents of margin over Lara Gut-Behrami and the most seemed really done, after skiing in a simply divine way, from the schuss of Pomedes to the Duke of Aosta, from the Delta to the great Curvone up to the Scarpadon.
Mikaela Shiffrin seemed launched towards a legendary world encore, she who had not competed in super-g since January 26, 2020, when she won in Bansko a week before the death of dad Jeff, and who had triumphed the last time she had put the skiing on the snow of Cortina. The sixth world title vanished with the lack of absorption of the last bump of the Olympia delle Tofane, costing between 8 tenths and a second by the two Swiss women who preceded it on the podium.
The FIS itself had fun creating the video parallel between the descent of the winner and that of Shiffrin, but Mikaela herself was keen to underline, as she had not complained about anything in the post-race interviews, that Gut's gold -Behrami was simply well deserved. "I understand that the mistake cost a lot of time and speed, but you have to ski to the finish line and I didn't quite succeed, but Lara did - commented the Eagle champion - The gold medal is simply where it should be. to stay".
And Livio Magoni himself, who at the head of Team Vlhova has lived on track battles with the American for years, paid tribute to what Mikaela did today. “I am happy with what Petra has done, for the first time ever on this track and running until halfway through the race, hitting the top ten and putting herself behind athletes who know her perfectly. Brava Shiffrin, medal in the first race and without that mistake he would certainly have been gold ”.
And the technician from Bergamo, for those who know him well, is certainly not one to give compliments.
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