Shiffrin yes, but what a thrill: "A second ... wild". Vlhova still podium without victory

The top five in Semmering of the World Cup mistress, with Petra on the tail since in the end they were divided by just 13 cents. "It's always nice to compete here." For Mikaela 15th pearl in giant and 78th in CdM, -4 from Lindsey Vonn.

Tuesday 27 December 2022 3 minutes reading time

Shivering, because perhaps few expected that he would give so much in the 2nd heat, given the margin of the first (albeit starting with the number 1, a factor that had an impact in part) and considering the feeling with this track. Mikaela Shiffrin, however, returns to win in giant after more than a year of fasting (last hurray on December 21, 2021 in Courchevel, another of her "fiefdoms") and she does it on "her" Semmering Panorama, for the fifth time in her career opening the triptych of races in the Austrian town as he did in 2016, when he then completed it in the encore between the wide doors and with the closing slalom. Seal number 78 in CdM, ever closer to Lindsey Vonn, 15th in giant and fourth of the season in three different disciplines, for a general classification that sees her increasingly leader, now 205 lengths ahead of Sofia Goggia and with 255 on Petra Vlhova, who recovered almost 6 tenths from her in the decisive heat, but who was just 13 hundredths away from her first shot of the season (the Slovak has already climbed the podium five times, today is her best result after a poker of third places). “I managed to put intensity into skiing right from the start in both heats, but the second was really... wild - Shiffrin''s words immediately after the race to the FIS microphones - This is a track where I like it always competing, I was a bit "dirty" but in the first heat I had felt that feeling that hadn't been there yet in giant slalom this year. Tomorrow? In the meantime, let's see what conditions we will find, it will be very hard to repeat ourselves with these opponents. It's always a battle…”.

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