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Saturday the second round of the season between the wide doors, with Bassino, Brignone and Goggia to challenge those who dominated in Soelden. Brunner also wants to get on his track: "I feel really good here".
Friday 26 November 2021 6 minutes reading time
A great battle, the one that will be “total” on the Killington Superstar, tomorrow for the second female giant of the World Cup scheduled at 4 pm Italian (first heat) and at 7 pm for the decisive descents.
All against Shiffrin and Gut-Behrami? Well, Soelden told us that the American and the Ticino had literally another step compared to the competition, but the context that we will see on Saturday in Vermont is completely different from the Rettenbach and promises to be a very tight confrontation in terms of time, on a not very difficult slope. but still interesting enough. And above all in Italy there is a great desire for redemption after a negative debut, also because the historian of the three blue strikers in Killington is ... Super: Sofia Goggia here took the first podium in the World Cup, third in comeback in the giant of 2016 (absolute debut in these parts for the circuit), Federica Brignone triumphed in 2018 with an extraordinary second heat and then finished in 2nd place two years ago, in the last edition held, 26 cents from the Marta one Bassino who is precisely the outgoing winner.
The precedents of the two big favorites, on the other hand, signal decidedly negative results for Gut-Behrami, who in 2016 came out in the first heat a few weeks after winning that giant in Soelden which is still his last success in a CdM giant, while he was 23rd. in 2017 and 19th both in 2018 and 12 months later, even if that was the darkest period of the Ticino career. Now, let's really talk about a completely different athlete.
Shiffrin, on the other hand, never rejoiced between the wide doors on the track where she grew up as a girl (she is undefeated instead in slalom, with four hurrahs in as many races), but she finished second in 2017 and third in 2019, just behind to the blue ones. “We arrive at this weekend at home with the best US team that I remember - explained Mikaela yesterday through the press office of the stars and stripes federation - We have young people of great level, it will be interesting to have them in the race here. It will be an open giant, from the Italians to all the rivals we know. Lara? She is skiing in an incredible way, it is really nice to see her skiing ”.
From Vlhova (3rd in Soelden before the double in slalom in Levi) to Worley, via Robinson, the protagonists will be many and among them Stephanie Brunner also wants to carve out an important role. Although battered by injuries in recent years, just on her post-Crusader return in 2018 she was splendid third on the “Superstar”, 12 months after finishing fourth in the previous edition. "I feel really good here" - explained the Tyrolean specialist to the "Kronen Zeitung", brilliant in Soelden in the 1st heat and then descend to the final 17th place - but Katharina Liensberger, at her feet, said she was very happy to return to Killington of the podium in the opening of a month ago on the Rettenbach and back from two slalom below expectations in Levi.
“It is essential to find the feeling immediately, since we have the classic American snow - analyzed the two-time world champion - And it is important, for our sport in general, to be back here after two years”.
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