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The World Cup rankings after the parallel of Lech / Zuers, fourth appointment of the season: Petra, always on the podium, will now have to defend herself from the blue (and Shiffrin?) In Sankt Moritz.
Thursday 26 November 2020 7 minutes reading time
The Women's World Cup has a clear and precise reference, the woman to chase if you want to fight for the absolute crystal ball.
We are obviously talking about Petra Vlhova, able after the podium in Soelden (3rd place with a great comeback after a very complicated first heat) to put an amazing hat-trick, between Levi's slalom and today's parallel in Austria. The coup signed by the Slovakian in Lech / Zuers is worth a lot, because from a possible lottery, as Livio Magoni had defined it (and in fact Petra herself has risked a lot already from the round of 16), the cup leader came out with another 100 points.
Michelle Gisin and Mikaela Shiffrin did not show up at the starting gate, for a very specific choice since the Swiss does not feel she has a feeling with this discipline, as she openly declared, while the American was not ready in terms of preparation after having dedicated herself totally at the slalom in the short period of pre Levi work; Marta Bassino and Federica Brignone, to all intents and purposes the other candidates for the general cup, tried to do so, bringing home respectively 45 and 36 points.
The gap, however, becomes important with the Cuneo (rising to third place behind Gisin) now at -202 and the Aosta Valley at 237 points from Vlhova, who also commands the ranking of specialties as regards the starting list (for that what matters, the Slovakian will be the seeded n ° 1 in the world parallel of Cortina), while we remind you that this year the specialty cup will not be awarded with only one test scheduled, after Petra herself had it brought home last March.
A Petra Vlhova who will have to defend herself in the next round of the World Cup, at least on paper: the double super-g of Sankt Moritz (5-6 December), also considering the characteristics of Engadina, is perfectly suited to the blue, Brignone above all and clearly also Sofia Goggia (remember the double with Fede, a year ago?), called to a good collection of points to get back on top.
Then you should go to Courchevel for an equally important double giant, but as reported "Ski Chrono" even today, there are more and more doubts about the possibility for the transalpine organizers to prepare a Stade Emile-Allais still ... green due to lack of rainfall and high temperatures. The FIS, however, does not have a plan B as for the male giants of Val d''Isère moved to Santa Caterina Valfurva, and could also grant the Savoyard locality the possibility of postponing the races for a couple of days, "tying them" to subsequent fast races in Val d''Isère. Even those, however, at risk of weather ...
GENERAL WORLD CUP RANKING (4/34)
1st Petra Vlhova 360 pt, 2nd Michelle Gisin 175, 3rd Marta Bassino 158, 4th Katharina Liensberger 135, 5th Mikaela Shiffrin 125, 6th Federica Brignone 123, 7th Wendy Holdener 116, 8th Paula Moltzan 114, 9 Katharina Truppe 108, 10 Lara Gut-Behrami 92, 11 Mina Fuerst Holtmann 85, 12 Thea Louise Stjernesund 76, 13 Laurence St-Germain 72, 14 Sara Hector 68, 15 Franziska Gritsch 65, 16 Irene Curtoni 58, 20 Sofia Goggia 44, 44 Martina Peterlini 11, 64 Marta Rossetti 2.
FEMALE PARALLEL WCSL
1st Petra Vlhova 156 pt, 2nd Marta Bassino 84, 3rd Federica Brignone 81, 4th Paula Moltzan 80, 5th Elisa Moerzinger 72, 6th Lara Gut-Behrami 70, 7th Sara Hector 67, 8th Thea Louise Stjernesund 58, 9th Clara Direz 50, 10th Kristin Lysdahl 49, 16th Sofia Goggia 31, 35th Laura Pirovano 9, 37th Irene Curtoni 7.
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