Shiffrin and Robinson from Reiteralm to Semmering, where Vlhova wants an encore. And Worley will start with the '1

The eve of the great rivals of the blue: the American today concluded with a slalom training, in view of Tuesday's battle with Petra. And the last three giants in Lower Austria have won them.

Sunday 27 December 2020 5 minutes reading time

It will be a thrilling giant, on Monday on the Semmering “Panorama”. A new, exciting challenge between the great protagonists of the giant, after the Courchevel binge. And they will all go to the assault of Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino, first and second in the specialty classification (divided by only 5 points in favor of the Aosta Valley) and with Mikaela Shiffrin to chase them. The journey on the eve of the rivals of the blues begins with the champion of Colorado, who returned to success in the last race he played, precisely the giant bis in Haute-Savoie last December 14th. Mikaela skipped the speed weekend in Val d''Isère to put more poles and km in his legs between slalom and giant: he did it at Reiteralm, concluding today the training with a last session in slalom , the discipline where he immediately wants to find the success missed by Levi, when his great comeback saw the eternal rival Petra Vlhova triumph twice. Now the queen of the narrow poles has certainly risen in level and on Tuesday there will be fun, but first it will be time for a giant that Shiffrin likes, and how, if we think that in 2016 he signed a back to back when two specialty races were held in that of Semmering, with the hat-trick that became such thanks to a new success in the closing slalom. The American has thus won four times in the town of Lower Austria, while Petra Vlhova has obtained her first giant success at the CdM level on the "Panorama": the giant of 28 December 2018 saw the Slovak beat Rebensburg and Worley (with Shiffrin " only ”fifth), a good memory for the World Cup leader who prepared these two days of technical competitions, and also the slalom of January 3 in Zagreb, with a lot of work between the tight posts in Ladurns. At Reiteralm like Shiffrin between Santo Stefano and today, after a couple of days in Pozza di Fassa on the Aloch, Alice Robinson also trained, called tomorrow to a great reaction after the half disaster in Courchevel. The New Zealander will start with bib number 2, immediately after Tessa Worley who, too, has a certain feeling with Semmering; it is enough to remember that victory of 28 December 2010, exactly ten years after Monday's race, but also the various podiums including the last one in 2018. In addition, for the transalpine champion there will be, in addition to the number 1 on the bib, the friendly line-up of Pierre Miniotti, a Valle d'Aosta technician who follows the French national team, to be exploited to the fullest in the first heat at 10.00 (the second, starting at 13.00, will instead be designed by the Norwegians).

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