Does Vlhova already feel the cup in your pocket? Magoni doesn't think about it: "Slalom training, it's not over"

Petra with 96 points over Gut-Behrami, who will almost certainly not show up at the start of the slalom on Saturday. A 26th place will be enough for a historic triumph, but the technician from Bergamo doesn't give up ...

Thursday 18 March 2021 3 minutes reading time

With the double cancellation of descent and super-g at the Lenzerheide finals, Petra Vlhova is really close to the big dream of the absolute World Cup. With only two technical races on the calendar, the Slovakian has 96 points ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami: it is clear, the Ticino will have the possibility until Friday afternoon to register also in slalom, but it is almost certain that she will not. point, for the race between the narrow poles on Saturday, a 26th place in Petra will be enough for the arithmetic certainty of the triumph, given that 101 lengths of margin are needed for certainty (in case of +100 before the giant, it would not be so Gut-Behrami get their seventh win of the season against Vlhova's six on Sunday). Also considering that Vlhova will play its second consecutive cup of specialties on Saturday, with +22 on Liensberger and +37 on Shiffrin which is certainly not a large margin, Livio Magoni does not want to leave anything to chance. As soon as he received the news of the cancellation of today's super-g, around 11.10 am, the technician from Bergamo moved with his athlete to a training track to put down a few laps of slalom. “Yes, let's not give up anything and we will also see if Gut-Behrami starts in slalom”, Magoni told us. But the historical "coppone" for the whole Slovak sports movement is very close ...

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