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The Swiss defends the red breastplate despite a hand fracture, the Austrian surprised by Dominik after having played a race that seemed perfect.
Friday 27 December 2019 3 minutes reading time
They joined him on the podium, admired and in some ways amazed by the umpteenth masterpiece of the King of Stelvio.
Beat Feuz and Matthias Mayer had to settle for second and third place respectively in a first descent to Bormio which gave a fabulous top 3. The Swiss was sumptuous, if we think that the fracture to the fifth metacarpal of the left hand, remedied last Friday in the super-g in Val Gardena, made him lose at least a couple of tenths in the initial stretch of thrust, arriving with 32 cents of delay to the first intermediate.
The winner of the last two World Cups of descent, however, smiles all the same in the Valtellina parterre for having defended the leader's red bib, now with 36 points on the same Paris, for a duel that will be renewed as last year: "Yes, I'm happy because I made a descent to the limit and got the maximum, from the performance and the result - the words of the 32 year old from the Canton of Bern - Here Dominik is superior, he demonstrated it even today. Tomorrow's race will be a new battle, legs will hurt ... ".
Matthias Mayer, dropped with bib number 5, seemed to have played a practically perfect race, not surprisingly he too was surprised by the detachment suffered by Paris, before even Feuz burned him for 3 cents. “It is a nice podium anyway, but of course Paris was from another category - the Carinthian bi Olympic champion confessed - I am very satisfied with my test, I thought it could also be worth the victory. Now let's think about tomorrow. "
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