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The world champion has returned to win in the World Cup after 4 years, Alexis retains the leadership despite a 4th and 3rd place that do not satisfy him 100%. And Favrot grows ...
Sunday 28 February 2021 3 minutes reading time
An all-French triumph in Bansko, with three athletes in the first four places in the second giant on the Bulgarian snow and Alexis Pinturault a little closer to the great goal of the absolute World Cup.
The man of the weekend, however, was again Mathieu Faivre with a second and a first place after the extraordinary world double in Cortina; an impressive change of gear, after very hard years, that of the '92 class of Isola 2000 which today obtained the second success of its career in the World Cup, more than four years after Val d''Isère, when he managed to beat (with an impressive second heat) a certain Marcel Hirscher on the “Oreiller-Killy”.
“It 's really nice to be able to confirm after Cortina - Faivre told Ski Chrono after today's giant - Now I feel really good on skiing, but even if these results had not arrived, the world medals would still have remained in my house. I'm simply in good shape and I'm happy with how I'm expressing myself ”.
Alexis Pinturault, third today at 6 cents from Marco Odermatt and more than 8 tenths from his teammate, keeps only 25 points on the same Swiss in the fight for the giant cup, but has 210 on the Nidvaldese in the general classification. “I'm happy, also because it was a rather difficult race - commented the champion from Courchevel - I made some small mistakes, but this derives from less clarity and from the fact that I need a little rest.
This was a difficult sequence to manage, from last Sunday's world slalom to the return to the giant here in Bansko, arriving on Wednesday: there wasn't much time to recover, now I have to rest to be at my best in the next races ”.
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