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The first giant of Courchevel brings the three-time winner of the World Cup back to the top of the general and increasingly red bib with an encore after Soelden: his statements and the return in front of the Swede and the Swiss.
Tuesday 21 December 2021 2 minutes reading time
And they are 72, more and more in a race towards history, given that from today Mikaela Shiffrin is also the third most successful gigantist ever (ahead of only Schneider and Moser-Proell) with 14 victories, albeit in cohabitation, after having literally painted on the snow of his Courchevel, a place with which he has a great feeling since today the sixth gem arrived on the Stade Emile-Allais, the fourth among the wide gates (as Max Ambesi recalls, no female athlete has ever managed to win so many times in a single discipline at the same competition site.
There are 113 podiums, just one less than Annemarie Moser-Proell, second overall behind Lindsey Vonn, for the new World Cup leader, today capable of giving a good push with the concomitant exit of Sofia Goggia. “It was a difficult day to manage - Mikaela explained to the FIS microphones after the race - Such a rough slope, a complicated design and great rivals who made a super second heat.
I have competed a lot in recent weeks, also changing the programs (with the participation last Sunday in the super-g in Val d''Isère), it was tough but I think I was close to one of my best performances in this specialty ”.
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