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Mainly due to the advance from Friday to Thursday of the women's combined Olympic Mikaela Shiffrin has decided to give up the descent on Wednesday.
Monday 19 February 2018 2 minutes reading time
"As much as I wanted to compete in the Olympic descent, with the change of program it is important for me to concentrate my energy on preparing for the combined", says Shiffrin - on the US Federsci website -. I can not wait to cheer for our girls who race downhill and do the combined Thursday. This track is incredible and has been a lot of fun scarves in the last few days. As with any descent I've done this year, I'm learning a lot at every race. Every time I arrive at the finish line I would like to return to the top and redo the race ".
Meanwhile Anna Veith has been left out of the Austrian quartet for the descent, for the women's Wunderteam will compete Cornelia Hütter, Nicole Schmidhofer, Ramona Siebenhofer and Stephanie Venier, the 28 year old from Salzburger Land, silver in the super-G, closes here his Olympics and will soon return home to recharge the batteries in view of the upcoming World Cup races. Finally, Mathieu Faivre, the fiancé of Shiffrin, was excluded from the Saturday's Team Event after he declared that he did not care about doing it following the disappointment for the seventh place in the giant which was actually one of his best seasonal results .
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