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Second place in Soelden has not shaken her too much, after a positive debut anyway, even though she was forced to respond to a "fan" via social media ...
Tuesday 29 October 2019 6 minutes reading time
Mikaela Shiffrin had won only once on the Rettenbach, also ex-aequo with Anna Veith in the 2014 edition, and having touched the success in the first seasonal giant for 6 cents has shown that, even in a specialty in which it is not yet so dominant on the adversaries in every context, the reference will still be her.
Of course, the comeback suffered by Alice Robinson, thinking above all of what the terrible 17-year-old New Zealand can do to her over the next few years, must not have pleased her, but the queen of the World Cup has left Austria with 80 points that have a value that goes beyond the cold numbers, thinking about how solid her skiing has been in both heats, giving a little something only in the final part of the wall in the 2nd run, the moment that cost her the race with a couple of important smears.
What filters from "Shiffrin house", however, is much more interesting than the outcome of the Soelden debut: according to what is confided to some US media, albeit with all the caution of the case and without announcements in great pomp, considering how much the enterprise is at the limits of the impossible (but not for an immense talent like the native of Eagle), Mikaela will try to win all 7 World Cups up for grabs this season.
Yes, you got it right: in the vintage without big events, which have always distracted you from the possibility of competing in every discipline from autumn to spring, this would be the right Coppa edition to try the one that, without fear of being denied, it would probably be the biggest undertaking in the history of skiing.
There are 41 races scheduled in the women's calendar and, if we count that the absolute Cup and the slalom are the basis on which to build the usual domain shown in recent years, Shiffrin will have to overcome above all in fast races; with the return to full capacity of Goggia and Stuhec, but also the competition of the many high-level Austrians, of an increasingly competitive Corinne Suter and perhaps the return to very high levels of the other Swiss Gisin and Gut-Behrami, is among super-g and descent that the enterprise would be difficult, above all because the American should dispute all the tests and the races to think of being able to take home all the globes.
Then there would remain those of giant, where the competition as we know is not lacking, the combined (4 scheduled races) where Mikaela actually could have a good margin on all, and the only 3 parallel races with the assignment, for the first time, of specialty crystal ball.
Consequently, the winner of the last three World Cups will hit the record of points (including the male sector) in a single season, signed by Tina Maze in the 2013/14 season with 2414 points, but to do so will have to go beyond certainly the 30 tokens of attendance that, in the last few years, has never exceeded (including major events races).
While returning home to Colorado, announcing the partnership with Land Rover on social media, the US champion also responded to a "fan" on instagram, who had caused her with a decidedly unkind message. "Meanwhile, Alice Robinson is training somewhere." Mikaela did not delay in the polite reply: "I arrived in Colorado last night, tomorrow I will be back in the mountains. Do not worry".
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