Alpine Skiingthe farewell of a champion
Our video-photo story about Anna Veith's career, a few hours after the announcement that ended the journey in the white circus of an extraordinary champion, capable of winning an Olympic title, three world golds and 2 absolute World Cups despite a thousand physical problems. From Sochi to PyeongChang, passing through the terrible crash of Soelden, here is the homage of NEVEITALIA to the Salzburg star: from No. 10 to No. 1, here are the ten highlights according to our ranking.
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10.Lienz - December 28, 2011 - The first gem in the cup - It is true, Anna dominates at a youth level between junior world titles and the double triumph in the European Cup (2006 and 2007), but since her 17-year-old debut in CdM , in the Levi slalom of November 2006, more than five years will pass to witness the first success in the maximum circuit. That season starts very well with the double podium in the North American super-g, then in late December here is the hit on the "Schlossberg" in Lienz, in the classic giant at the end of the year which for her will become a beautiful winning tradition. Anna triumphs in front of four absolute champions, beating Federica Brignone by two tenths, with Worley third, Rebensburg fourth and Vonn fifth ...
9.Garmisch-Partenkirchen - 11 February 2011 - The surprise world title - The Austrian champion triumphs in a world championship competition even before making it in the cup, but already in her first world championship in Val d''Isère, Anna is splendid fourth in super-g. Two years later in Garmisch, he starts with a fifth place in the same discipline, before the super combined masterpiece (as it was called at the time). Third 4 tenths from Goergl after the heats of speed, the first Fenninger skips the compatriot and a certain Anja Paerson in slalom, containing the comeback of Tina Maze who will be silver for only 9 cents in front of the same Swedish champion.
8.Beaver Creek - February 3, 2015 - The World of Dreams starts big - On the snows of Vail-Beaver Creek an world championship event begins that will see Anna dominate, with two golds, silver for a breath downhill and the 4th combined place. The super-g is simply creepy, with the then 25-year-old from Salzburg burning a Tina Maze in extraordinary condition on the wool thread, folded as in Garmisch (this time for 3 cents) in the umpteenth duel a year after the giant Olympic of Sochi, and Lindsey Vonn forced to bronze, 15 cents from Anna.
7.Lenzerheide - 13 March 2014 - The first crystal ball - Second place behind the colleague and friend Lara Gut, in the super-g of the Lenzerheide finals, is enough to toast the World Cup that Anna brings back to Austria seven years after Nicole Hosp. The injury suffered by Maria Hoefl-Riesch downhill simplifies the task, but it is a well deserved triumph that of the Austrian who locks the cup with two races in advance and legitimizes the success going then to take the final giant, with attached crystal ball in the discipline.
6.PyeongChang - 17 February 2018 - The rebirth and the mockery - Jeongseon Olympic track, is the third and last time of the "new" Anna Veith at the Games. After the 2016 wedding, but above all the thousands of physical problems that leave many unknowns about the medal possibilities. Yet after the 12th place 48 hours before in giant, Anna invents a super-g masterpiece, burning for a tenth a certain Tina Weirather and Lara Gut. It seems the perfect podium, the one with three of the best specialists in history, then with the breastplate 26 comes the surprised Ledecka, who for one penny takes away the incredible Austrian gold encore 4 years after Sochi. It looks like the rebirth, but it will be his last great high-level performance.
5.Val d''Isère - 17 December 2017 - The last triumph is a brushstroke on Oreiller-Killy - It seems another difficult season, having to manage the knee problems that continue to torment her, but in Val d ' 'Isère here comes the 15th, and will be the last, success in the World Cup in the super-g on a ski temple track. Fifteenth on the previous day in the first of the two speed races, Anna invents a stroke of the author to beat Tina Weirather and Sofia Goggia by the middle. It is the umpteenth royal podium (his last will arrive 3 months later in the super-g of Crans-Montana behind the same Weirather) that season the divine career.
4.Soelden - 21 October 2015 - The accident that changed history - There are 3 days left until the start of the 2015/16 World Cup, to which Anna presents herself as a favorite after the triumphs of the two previous seasons. In training on the ice box of the Soelden glacier, alongside the Rettenbach who had already seen her triumph a year earlier, here is the internment and the fatal twist to the right knee: the injury is of an unprecedented gravity , since it does not concern "only" the anterior cruciate ligament, the collateral and the menisci, but also the patellar tendon of an articulation that will never return to that of before. The intervention in Innsbruck, then the first training sessions the summer following the Stelvio, just a few months after the wedding with Manuel Veith; the second career begins, that of Mrs. Veith, with only one success in the cup and that Olympic silver medal in PyeongChang, followed by the new serious injury that always occurred to the right knee, on January 12, 2019 in a giant training session in Pozza di Fassa.
3.Beaver Creek - February 12, 2015 - The divine enchants on Birds of Prey - The first world title in giant, the discipline where it is dominating at that time, is a logical consequence. But what we see on that evening (Italian) on the snow of Vail-Beaver Creek is special, because Anna destroys the competition with an annal race; the void does this already in the first heat, with Kirchgasser first chaser at 8 tenths of a second, then in the second heat the margin on Rebensburg reaches up to 1 ”80. An incredible number with the risk of the patatrac will remove them almost half a second in the final stretch, with the gold ahead of the German who will be second distant 1 "40.
2.Sochi - February 15, 2014 - The Olympic title in a fabulous super-g - Rosa Khutor, is a time of battle in a very difficult super-g that sees Anna conquering her first and only Olympic gold with a master test. Maria Hoefl-Riesch is second at 55 cents, Nicole Hosp third at 66, with Gut and Maze forced to settle for fourth and fifth places. Then the giant silver will arrive, just 7 cents from Tina Maze and the possible encore.
1.Meribel - 22 March 2015 - The second cup at the end of a single giant - On the eve of the final giant of the 2014/15 World Cup, Tina Maze precedes Anna Veith, capable of recovering hundreds of points from Slovenian from February onwards, for only 18 points. If both end up on the podium, whoever arrives in front will in fact be the winner of the crystal ball: after the first heat, the Austrian is in the lead and with 27 cents of margin right on the direct rival. A final never seen and, even if in the second there will be a Brem capable of overcoming Tina for 8 cents, when it is Anna's turn the pressure is a thousand. You need to get to the front, on a track in toasty conditions especially on the long final wall: the management is a masterpiece, which allows the last Fenninger of his career to beat his compatriot for 38 cents and 46 a Maze forced to surrender. Victory in the last race, second giant cup and second general cup.
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