Will we review the real Lara? Gut-Behrami working to get back on top of the world ... with some changes

He won the 2016 World Cup and was close to his next year, before that crash at the Sankt Moritz World Cup that seems to have changed everything.

Sunday 18 August 2019 4 minutes reading time

Lara Gut-Behrami has yet to find herself at her level, after two seasons of recovery from that knee injury, which occurred during the warm-up phase towards the combined heat in her home world championship. Only in super-g have we admired at times the champion able to dominate in that specialty and not only: the vintage 2018/19 saw the 28 year-old from Comano conclude twice on the podium, in the fast tests of Sankt Moritz (second) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (third), always in that super-g that had seen her touch the Olympic medal in PyeongChang 2018, in the year of her return. No medals were received at the world championships in Are and last season also ended early, with a nasty blow to the back accused falling in the trials of the descent to the Soldeu finals. The Ticino champion has decided to start almost from scratch, with the clear intent to return to playing her always for the victory, from the descent to that giant that has so much seen her in difficulty in the last two years. A new athletic trainer has arrived, the Spanish JosÃ¨ Luis Alejo Hervas (in the past he worked with the Iberian federsci and at home in Norway), while at his side there will no longer be a personal manager at the level of the press office like Giulia Candiago who he had followed her in the last period, given that the former blue-collar has started working in FIS as media coordinator and Gut-Behrami will have to "settle" for a single reference like all her companions. Apparently, the Helvetician has also reset the approach at the level of materials, working a lot in the spring for the tests with Head (we remember it in late April in Livigno, where Sofia Goggia and Federica Brignone were also training, ed. ). In addition, there is a transfer to the family level in Martigny, a greater comfort with her husband Valon Behrami who, having moved from Udinese to Sion, will be able to live alongside Lara without too many complications in terms of transfers.

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