Sofia ... seven beauties! Another domination in Val d''Isère, Goggia flies to the top of the World Cup

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The descent on the Oreiller-Killy is still from Bergamo, at the seventh consecutive seal in the discipline, with the number 7 and ... for the seventh podium in Val d''Isère! On the podium a fabulous Johnson and Puchner, top ten for Nadia Delago and Curtoni then a good race for Brignone and Bassino.

Saturday 18 December 2021 5 minutes reading time

It's Sofia ... seven beauties, for a magical number that has been repeated several times today in Val d''Isère. There is no story, even in the third seasonal descent, on the "OK" that Sofia Goggia had already tamed last year: the encore is amazing, like in Lake Louise with a wide margin over all the rivals (except one ...) , for what is the seventh consecutive victory in races disputed by the Bergamo-based (in the middle the Garmisch injury and the missed appointments in Val di Fassa, in addition of course to the Cortina World Championship) in the queen discipline, the eleventh in career ( at -1 from Isolde Kostner) and the fifteenth total in the World Cup (in this case, it is already a “draw” with the Gardena). Going down with bib n ° 7 for ... the seventh podium on Oreiller-Killy, where in 2016 his love was definitely born with the first downhill podium. And there are 100 points that mean the top of the overall cup standings for the Olympic champion, 10 points ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin who will challenge on Sunday in super-g ... There was some "goggiata" in the upper part, just before entering the forest area, then Sofia simply tore the competition apart, with that innate speed "only" to control that no one was able to approach, except for a fantastic Breezy Johnson , again second as in the double race of Lake Louise. The 25-year-old American, who is still waiting to celebrate in CdM (7th podium in descent), concluded at 27 cents from Bergamo, then there is the void in the standings with the awaited Mirjam Puchner who makes some mistakes, but yes however takes another podium closing at 91 cents. Austria who then proposes Ramona Siebenhofer, fourth at 1 "33, with Ilka Stuhec who goes up on one of his favorite tracks and gives himself a good fifth, with very close gaps also for Corinne Suter (1" 43, the Swiss is not yet that of last two seasons), Mowinckel 7 ^ at 1 "44 and Nadia Delago 8 ^ at 1" 45, less than a tenth from the best result of his career. Elena Curtoni also has some regrets, finishing ninth at 1 "52 (starting with bib number 3), and if we want Federica Brignone, 11th at 1" 69 (in front of her Michelle Gisin) but close to the podium area up to the Bosse Emile, before paying a lot in the final smoothness section, paradoxically having done much better in the upper part. (updating)

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