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Yesterday she made a gap in the 1st heat perhaps also thanks to her bib, today she beat them all with an almost perfect race, burning a stoic Lara Gut-Behrami by just one tenth. Thursday in slalom for a legendary round figure, reached and surpassed only by Vonn and Stenmark: Mikaela's words in the giant post encore on the Panorama.
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From 1 to 7 the result is... 79.
First bib in yesterday's giant on the Panorama and thrilling victory, resisting Petra Vlhova by 13 cents after a 2nd run in management. Today the encore in her Semmering, for a sumptuous Mikaela Shiffrin in the second consecutive appointment between the wide doors, given that in the opening heat with number 7 it was far from easy to cling to Lara Gut-Behrami and make the difference on all the others, to then "punish" the Ticino rider by just one tenth, again making a void in that initial plan where, essentially, the leader of the general has built two very important successes for the perhaps already crucial stretch towards the fifth sphere crystal, if we think that now Sofia Goggia is 305 pts away and Petra Vlhova at -319.
“As I said, I always enjoy myself here and it's great to win back in Semmering - his post-race comment to the FIS microphones - Today, perhaps even more than yesterday, was very hard, both in the very fast first heat and in the second, where he saw little of the ground. The records? I don't think about it, now let's see the slalom where another battle awaits us”.
He won't think about it, but now 79 successes in the World Cup, at -3 from Lindsey Vonn and with that symbolic 80 quota that he can already reach on Thursday evening, on the occasion of the night slalom to complete the trio of victories in his Semmering (as he did in 2016), where he has already triumphed six times with four of a kind in giant. In this discipline, Mikaela has won the same number of races only in Courchevel, and climbing to 16 hurrahs between the wide doors, she is already second all time on a par with Tessa Worley and Annemarie Moser-Proell, preceded only by Vreni Schneider (with 20 giant seals). Impressive.
Perhaps Lara Gut-Behrami also deserved to get on the top step of the podium, as expressed today by the Ticino rider who came just a whisker away from Killington's encore: a mistake was fatal for her in the middle of the 2nd heat, then that comeback until a tenth from Shiffrin, who again conceded a lot in the last six goals. In any case, the world champion in giant slalom is always third, just 48 points from Bassino, in the ranking of a specialty that at the moment sees her as the main protagonist with respect to speed: "The track was even more choppy than yesterday - he had declared Lara to SRF Sport after the first heat, closed in the lead with 22 cents over Shiffrin – None of them had a good feeling, at least I think, I was surprised to find myself in front even if I always let go of the ski".
Then Shiffrin took care of taking away her success n° 36 in CdM, but a Gut-Behrami who can smile leaves Semmering.
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Giant slalom Female Semmering (AUT)
SHIFFRIN Mikaela
GUT-BEHRAMI Lara
BASSINO Marta
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Wednesday 28 December 2022
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Wednesday 28 December 2022
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