Alexis, say 30. Pinturault's party: "Great day, with this format the parallel makes sense"

The transalpine has crossed an important milestone in his career, joining the club of ten multiple victors in the World Cup. The challenge with Kristoffersen has already begun.

Friday 27 November 2020 4 minutes reading time

A special success, the one achieved tonight in Lech / Zuers by Alexis Pinturault. You want because, albeit with a very different format compared to that city event, it is his second in the discipline, from 21 February 2012 when in Moscow he obtained the first hurray in the maximum circuit at just 20 years old. And the one torn in today's parallel is also the 30th triumph in World Cup races for the champion from Courchevel, in the club of 10 multiple victors, detaching Stephan Eberharter by a length and finding himself now at -3 from Bode Miller. And to think that the 9 champions who precede him have all won the absolute crystal ball at least once ... Here, Alexis' mission is simply one, to bring the "coppone" back to France 24 years after Luc Alphand. The road is still very long and the duel that everyone was already predicting (before Kilde came to mock everyone) in the first season of the post Hirscher, or the one with Henrik Kristoffersen, seems to have just begun. Eleven cents were enough to fold the Norwegian and keep him behind by 25 points overall, as Pinturault finished 4th in Soelden (partially disappointing) and HK94 in fifth position. “It's a great day for me, I felt good and everything went as I wanted - he explained to the FIS microphones after the race - The parallel format? So it takes a correct direction, it is much fairer with the double run until the final ”, underlined the transalpine who, last year in Chamonix, did not send them to say for what seemed more like a lottery than a ski race. Even a Henrik Kristoffersen can be satisfied and smile, who takes 80 points (with the 24th second place in the CdM) probably against the odds, especially if we think that the Norwegian has overcome the eighth and quarter-finals suffering and not a little with Zubcic and Luitz, to whom a mistake in the final was fatal. After three weeks of training in Sweden, largely dedicated to slalom, the mission has restarted from a very important result for the same dream of rival Pinturault. That cup that will now pass, in a new stage of the very long journey, from the two giants of 5-6 December to Santa Caterina Valfurva.

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