Nadia Delago higher and higher and a great Brignone: "I exploited my qualities as a gigantist"

On the day of the fall of Goggia (already in the hotel and with the thought of the super-g), in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee there are still five blue in the top 20 with the Gardena again at the best result, 4th, a whisker away from the company. And the Aosta Valley, sixth, has returned to the great. Their reactions.

Saturday 15 January 2022 3 minutes reading time

A cursed descent for Sofia Goggia, who lost the chance to continue an incredible series and above all the possibility of reducing the gap from Mikaela Shiffrin to just over 200 points (and from Petra Vlhova, very far from her seasonal debut in speed), but which nevertheless saw the Italdonne protagonist in a thrilling race at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee. First of all, the conditions of the Bergamo woman, who really took a big risk ending up in the nets: no problems with her knees, but only a few blows to the upper part of the body and in particular to the neck, with Sofia immediately returned to the hotel without making any statements, but visited by the physio and with the confirmation from the blue staff that there will be no problems in the super-g perspective on Sunday. We were talking about the team test: five athletes in the top 20 and two in the six, with the podium touched by a splendid Nadia Delago. Fourth at 8 cents from Siebenhofer, the youngest of the Gardena sisters (with Nicol 12th, on the track where she was second in 2020) can smile for having improved even more after Lake Louise and Val d''Isère. "I am very happy, of course the podium was there but it is important to keep improving". And Federica Brignone smiles too, speaking to Rai Sport after her sixth place, obtained with an extraordinary final stretch, making the difference in the four more technical corners. “I am really happy - the words of the Aosta Valley woman, who returned today after having skipped Kranjska Gora - All this despite having managed to lose a lot on the second intermediate, also because I made a mistake in the entry curve in the plane. From the second jump on, however, I kept my foot down and finally tried to exploit my qualities as a gigantist ”. And on Sunday there is a super-g perfect for the characteristics of Faith ...

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