A special podium: Petra and the "daydream", Paula between joy and pain, Lara and the "first" in parallel

In Lech / Zuers the domination of the Slovakian continues: her words after the race. For the American, second, also the push of ... Mikaela Shiffrin.

Thursday 26 November 2020 4 minutes reading time

A special podium, for the first and only parallel of a World Cup that Petra Vlhova wants to direct, more and more, towards her Slovakia. Three hundred points collected in the space of six days and earlier, a real breakaway in the standings for the pupil of coach Magoni: now Michelle Gisin finds herself with 185 points behind, Marta Bassino has risen to third place at -202, but it's safety of Petra that impresses, just think of how this evening she managed to solve at least a couple of very difficult situations from the round of 16 onwards. Luck has very little to do with it, for one who has already won 3 times in the World Cup in parallel (in addition to the crystal ball last season, albeit over just two races) and has reached 17 pearls in the maximum circuit. “A daydream find me with these three victories - Vlhova said after the race - I suffered already in the first round, after a good qualification, but I was able to recover on several occasions and get the better of the wool thread. Of course, in this discipline you also need a little luck and even the final was a battle. Now I rest, but only for a little while ... ". On the day of Thanksgiving, Paula Moltzan gave the second podium of the season to the United States, after Mikaela Shiffrin's in Levi; the champion of Colorado, absent to better prepare the super-g of Sankt Moritz, also considering that in parallel she has never trained in recent months, pushed her teammate in front of the TV (funny her instagram stories in this sense), but the 26-year-old from Minnesota took a very long time to reach the first podium of her career. "It was fun, a little crazy, but it's a great result for me - confessed Moltzan, quite sore after the blow he got in the decisive run of the final - Maybe I could have won, but I needed to risk everything for everything as I made the mistake and there can be. And in the Austrian evening, the first podium in a parallel World Cup for Lara Gut-Behrami also arrived, who had also signed the best time in qualifying, before yielding to Moltzan herself in the semifinals. For the Ticino from Comano, after the good debut in Soelden, another important signal: in “her” Sankt Moritz, for the super-g scheduled for 5-6 December, watch out for Lara ...

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