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The two-time Olympic medalist, splendid second in the super-g of Val d''Isère after the long ordeal following the fall of the 2019 Soldeu finals. Shiffrin, fifth, now aims at Courchevel and Lienz to regain the leadership of the cup.
Sunday 19 December 2021 4 minutes reading time
She entered the magical blue trio, preventing an all-tricolor podium that many already anticipated, once the bogey Mikaela Shiffrin was over.
The same Curtoni and Brignone, at that moment behind Sofia Goggia in today's super-g ranking in Val d''Isère, applauded her return among the greats, because everyone in the white circus loves Ragnhild Mowinckel. A rediscovered smile, that of the 29-year-old Norwegian who left, but the signal had already been launched in Sankt Moritz with a high quality 4th place, after a period of enormous physical difficulties, which lasted almost 3 years.
It all started with the fall in the tests of the Soldeu descent, at the CdM finals in March 2019: classic crusader of the right knee, then broken again in training at the beginning of the following season, without even falling. And at a certain point it was thought that, after those 6 podiums obtained in less than 13 months, a period in which Mowinckel had also won two splendid Olympic medals by undermining Goggia downhill and Shiffrin in giant at PyeongChang 2018, that Ragnhild would not have more view.
The second place on the “OK”, which comes after the last top 3 signed in the Maribor giant on February 1, 2019, marks the beginning of a new career. “I felt like myself again - the words of Mowinckel reported by the Associated Press - and I realized I could attack again, skiing as clean as possible. I'm back, now I can tell, it's really nice to be here with the other girls on a World Cup podium ”.
Podium that missed by just over 2 tenths Mikaela Shiffrin, 5th at the absolute debut in Val d''Isère, she who had decided only in the middle of the week to present herself to this super-g to limit the damage compared to Sofia Goggia , which in any case overcame it by 65 points at the top of the general classification. A choice that turned out to be right, so much so that the American champion was satisfied with today's placement, brought home without any experience on this track and obviously having skipped tests and descents.
And now for Shiffrin there are eight consecutive technical races (4 giants and 4 slalom), starting with the two challenges between the wide doors in "his" Courchevel, on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22, to try to take off and confirm himself as the main favorite. for the fourth career crystal ball. Against this Goggia, and attention to the return of Vlhova who will be perfectly prepared in the technical disciplines, it will not be a foregone mission, on the contrary.
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