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After training in Sankt Moritz, the World Cup leader will "respond" immediately to Goggia and the other rivals, presenting herself at the starting gate on Sunday, for her first time on the Oreiller-Killy.
Thursday 16 December 2021 3 minutes reading time
Here is the surprise that makes the Women's World Cup more and more interesting, if we think that after Saturday's descent, in the event of a seventh consecutive success in the specialty, Sofia Goggia would jump to the top of the general classification (currently she is second at -90 pt).
It is the words of Mikaela Shiffrin that change the cards: the champion of Colorado will compete on Sunday, in the fourth super-g of the season, the second appointment of the Val d''Isère stage that the cup leader had decided to skip, as every year. Then, here is the change of course and the debut on the "Oreiller-Killy", considering that Mikaela has managed to train at her best in these days in Sankt Moritz, staying right in the Engadine town that hosted her after the two third places in super-g last weekend.
"I had no intention of going to Val d''Isère, but we decided just last night to try the super-g - the words of the three-time winner of the crystal ball - Sankt Moritz provided us with the most incredible conditions to train in giant and slalom, we really did a lot of work, I'm very grateful to the organization ”.
Without tests on the "OK", it is clear that for Shiffrin it will not be easy, but it is equally true that while thinking about preparing the two giants of Courchevel (Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 December), a "passage" from Val d '' Isère is quite there if we look at his performance in this discipline, in which his worst result in the last 4 years is a 10th place in 2019 in Lake Louise ...
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GOGGIA Sofia
MOWINCKEL Ragnhild
CURTONI Elena
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