Vlhova with anger, Shiffrin says he is happy and Liensberger ("I skied with my heart") is now a factor

The reactions of those who "accompanied" Michelle Gisin's success in Semmering. The Slovak already projected towards Zagreb (with the doubts related to the dispute of the race), Mikaela on the 99th podium and the Austrian who is the only one to have always climbed on the podium in the three slalom disputed so far.

Tuesday 29 December 2020 5 minutes reading time

Three different stories and reactions for a Semmering slalom that rewarded Michelle Gisin, but also tells many other facets and situations. Like those of Petra Vlhova, fourth and for the first not winning among the tight posts for a year now, she who had conquered the last five slaloms; the joke of yesterday's giant, canceled with the Slovak in the lead halfway through the race, on the mental level may have conditioned her in a very difficult first heat, which ended almost 9 tenths from Shiffrin and Gisin practically without errors. In the second the Slovak star was rekindled, but tonight there were those who had something more than her: woe to underestimate a reaction that, if you compete regularly in Zagreb, will certainly arrive on Sunday on that hill of Sljeme that crowned queen 12 months ago, dominating right in front of Mikaela Shiffrin. As Livio Magoni has already informed us, immediately in Vipiteno to return to work on the last of the year and on January 1st with a double session in slalom, she who has to put hay in the farmhouse as leader of the World Cup as she is . There is the story of Katharina Liensberger, who in the night on the "Panorama" took the sixth podium of her career, the third season in slalom (and is the only one to have always hit the top 3, from the two races of Levi in Semmering) and the best result of her career, because so far the 23-year-old from Vorarlberg had always finished in third position when she hit the target. “The victory didn't come, but it's like it was - he enthusiastically told oesv.at - I'm so happy with my second heat, I think I skied with my heart and it was fantastic. I went to the limit, but I can only congratulate Michelle and I am super happy with the performance and the result ”. And then there is Mikaela Shiffrin; probably wrong who believed in a champion disappointed by the third place, she who was in the lead after the first and obviously can only think always and only on the victory in slalom, even if the poles in training are much less than those of her rivals. The podium n ° 99 in CdM makes the champion of Eagle smile, who embraced Gisin herself immediately after the finish line (the two are linked by an excellent relationship) which, in any case, meant for Mikaela 43th top 3 in the last 46 disputed slalom ... "I had forgotten how it feels to be at the gate having to start last (since her return she had already happened in the second giant of Courchevel, then won), but even if I didn't win the race, it's good for me to be in this position , considering also that in the second heat I could have finished outside. I was really pushing and I didn't manage it well, I made mistakes and at that point third place was the best I could have achieved ”.

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