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First round of the opening slalom, with the Slovak in front of the eternal rival for 11 cents. The Slovenian less than half a second ahead of the Swede, in the pits for 21 months. Liensberger over 7 tenths of a second.
Saturday 20 November 2021 4 minutes reading time
A first heat with a clear duel, the one that has characterized practically all the last editions of Levi's slalom, with the surprise of a far away Katharina Liensberger and the scarecrow Andreja Slokar ...
Petra Vlhova, who won twice in 2020 on the "Levi Black", leads the slalom opening halfway through with only 11 cents of margin over Mikaela Shiffrin, for a stellar confrontation that we will see again starting at 13.30 for the decisive heat . The Slovakian, who has been training on the Finnish snow for almost three weeks and has prepared these two races in the smallest details, has gained almost 4 tenths on the eternal rival in the first 25 seconds of the flat, with Mikaela who in turn recovered in the final and he is there, to play the fifth for Levi and the connection to ... Stenmark (with 46 victories in a single specialty).
Then the void, but there is Andreja Slokar (bib 11) 48 cents from the top and increasingly a reality, also thinking about the success in the parallel of Lech / Zuers a week ago, and the returning Anna Swenn-Larsson, fourth in + 0 ”55 in the first race after 21 months of absence. Very, very good.
Michelle Gisin is fifth with 7 tenths of a gap, for a very good performance by the Swiss who, it must be remembered, due to mononucleosis has less training at this point of the season. Two hundredths behind here are Liensberger and Duerr: the Austrian, for the first time with the red bib, has never really entered the race and is expecting a super comeback on her part, the German made an important mistake but certainly can consider herself satisfied with a time trial that keeps her in full swing for the podium.
Eighth, 93 cents from Shiffrin, a Wendy Holdener who can smile, if we think that she was back on the snow a few days after the fracture of both scaphoids, with Hector (at 1 "11) and Dubovska (at 1" 43) at complete the partial top ten, waiting to see the seven blue in the race, with Martina Peterlini (number 28) and Marta Bassino (31) first to go down.
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