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The Vars organizers have announced that the fresh winner of the Alpine skiing downhill cup Nicole Schmidhofer will take part in the speed skiing world championships.
Tuesday 19 March 2019 2 minutes reading time
The French town of the Hautes-Alpes department, besides being famous for being located at the foot of the hill of the same name, one of the symbols of world cycling, is also known for the Chabrières track, which was the scene of numerous world speed records on skis, the last of which are held by Italy, both made in 2016: in the men's field by Ivan Origone (254.958 km / h), who took the record for his elder brother Simone, who had established that same day, and in the women's field by Valentina Greggio (247.083 km / h).
Nici will challenge among other things the Verbanese, which turns 28 today (best wishes!) But which this year for the first time after time immemorial is not leading the World Cup having to its credit "only" a victory, two seconds and a third place in four races, in front of her there is the Swedish Britta Bäcklund, three victories and a third place for her, Nici's goal, born in Carinthia and raised in Styria, 30 years ago four days ago , will be to be the first Austrian to break through the wall of the 200 hours on skis The world races are scheduled for Friday and next Saturday.
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