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Retrace the racing street & nbsp; Tina Maze, a career that especially in recent years, up to the end of M & eacute; ribel of 2015, & nbsp; & egrave; It was sensational ..
Thursday 20 October 2016 11 minutes reading time
Born May 2, 1983 in Slovenj Gradec, the family moved Tina & igrave; when she was very small from her old country of residence, Prevalje, to the new & # 268; rna na Koro & scaron; kem, the resort & agrave; Carinthian where Tina (his full name & egrave; Klementina) & egrave; He grew up and where he learned to ski right from & rsquo; et & agrave; of three years. After winning in 1996 and 1998, the Whistler Cup, one of the pi & ugrave; important events at the youth level, in November 1998 dispute his first FIS race which immediately made great evidence enough to begin a few weeks later, January 2, 1999, even in the World Cup, in the giant house in Maribor, when still needs to make 16 years. It engages sporadically in the European Cup, an event in which conquer & agrave; two giants in 1999-2000 season when coming second in the final standings of the wide doors instead of three editions of the Junior World Championships from 1999 to 2001 his best result will be & agrave; a sixth place in Verbier in 2001 in giant slalom.
In the World Cup its growth & egrave; Slow but steady: October 28, 2000 c & rsquo; & egrave; his first points finish when & egrave; twenty-fourth in the giant S & ouml; Sölden, his first top ten placing & egrave; tenth place in Maribor giant of 6 January 2001, his first podium & egrave; a second place in Maribor and always among the wide doors 4 January 2002. On 26 October 2002 it was the first victory in the S & ouml giant; Sölden and divides a tie with the Norwegian andrine flemmen and l & rsquo; Austrian Nicole Hosp, quest & rsquo; last her friend and she also the first success in the cup. In the early career of Tina excels especially in giant and square, some podium in super-G but to win again must wait until the 2004-2005 season when the giants it three wins, & egrave; again prior to S & ouml; Sölden all & rsquo; beginning of the 2005-2006 season but then a gradual decline until 2 February 2008 when, with bib number 47 and with a visibility & agrave; much better than the one they had the big of specialty & agrave; triumphs surprise in the downhill in St. Moritz.
It & rsquo; that the race of rebirth for Tina but the real turning point comes at the end of that & rsquo; winter: while continuing to defend the colors of Slovenia created his own private team disconnected from the rest of the federation that & rsquo; accompany & agrave; for the rest of his career and whose focus will be & agrave; l & rsquo; Italian coach-boyfriend Andrea Massi, also changes the materials passing from Rossignol in St & ouml; ckli, this choice also fully apt. From this moment Tina, which moreover & egrave; physically sound and will have & agrave; lucky not to suffer serious injuries for the rest of his career, begins to enter gradually into a & rsquo; other dimension: despite winning a few races, two giant in 2008-2009, a giant in 2009-2010, a combined and slalom in 2010-2011, even no in 2011-2012, & egrave; very consistent in the results so as to constantly climb positions in the overall standings of the World Cup: first sixth, then fourth, then third and then even second without even a successful season but with ten podiums. In addition there are the first heavy medals at the World Championships in 2009 & egrave; silver giant, to those of 2011 gold in giant slalom and bronze in the super combined, at the Olympics in Vancouver 2010 silver in super-G and giant.
But his season d & rsquo; gold & egrave; undoubtedly 2012-2013. In World Cup wins in all five specialties & agrave; (Only Petra Kronberger and Janica Kosteli & # 263; we were successful in the women in the same winter): five times in giant slalom, a downhill, a super-G, two in slalom and two in combination, ends 24 times on the podium, season record ever, in 35 races (and placings in the top ten are even 32!), won the super-G and giant trophies even touching those of downhill and slalom, but above all it brings home the overall World Cup, reaching a share of the points , 2414, which will be & agrave; hard to beat in the future. The World Championships in Schladming then & egrave; gold in super-G and silver in giant slalom and combined. L & rsquo; next winter is slow in the World Cup, just one win downhill in Cortina d & rsquo; Ampezzo but & egrave; still fourth in the general standings and points on all & rsquo; only laurel that is missing, l & rsquo; Olympic gold, and centers it on time, even twice, in a tie with Dominique Gisin downhill and giant.
Finally, the season just ended in which d & agrave; Life in a legendary duel with Anna Fenninger: three wins in December, a slalom, a downhill and a giant & Aring; re Dec. 12, then must undergo the & rsquo; impressive return of & rsquo; Austrian but remains in play until the & rsquo; last race, the giant M & eacute; ribel of 22 March, in which & egrave; third in the overall standings but surpassed by Anna who won his second consecutive World Cup. Always with the 25 year-old of Salzburg duels also the World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek: & egrave; she fought for 3 cents in super-G but takes his revenge downhill for 2 cents and then also puts at l & rsquo; gold of the combined neck.
In closing a bit & rsquo; numbers: 400 round round matches played in the World Cup with 26 wins (twelfth ever a tie with Michaela Figini) of which 4 downhill, super-G in 1, 14 in giant (third ever a tie with Lise-Marie Morerod and Anita Wachter), fourth in slalom and third in combined, has also racked up 81 podiums (seventh always a tie with Maria Riesch) and 172 total placings in the top ten (seventh ever); eight editions of the World Cup played from 2001 to 2015 with a haul of four golds and five silvers; four editions of the Olympic Winter Games played from 2002 to 2014 with a haul of two golds and two silvers.
In short, a sensational champion that featured a perhaps unique period for the women's skiing, punctuated by the presence of many very great champions, over all the pi & ugrave; largest ever, Lindsey Vonn, with whom Tina gave birth to repeated duels with no holds barred and emerged the most & ugrave; often beaten but never tamed. But now, at the end of a grueling season followed by a sabbatical that made the prelude to the final withdrawal, Tina left the field to the other and we can not make them that big good luck for his life without the races.
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