2021 cortina world championships
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The mixed feelings of France. On the one hand, Mathieu's second gold, on the other the disappointment of the great favorite, who risks leaving Cortina without titles. And Schwarz "books" the slalom ...
Friday 19 February 2021 5 minutes reading time
If for Italy it was the perfect day with Luca De Aliprandini's silver, at home France we rejoice for the second, sensational world title of Mathieu Faivre, who also paints the giant in gold after winning even more surprisingly, the parallel of last Tuesday. On the other hand, however, the captain of the Equipe de France, Alexis Pinturault, comes out with broken bones from the race he wanted most of all and has not yet won in his career: out at the start of 2nd heat, after having impressed in the first close with 4 tenths of a margin on De Aliprandini, the champion from Courchevel showed all his disappointment to Eurosport's microphones. "I knew the fifth gate was going to be difficult, but I then touched with the boot and I couldn't do anything".
Pinturault risks leaving Cortina without titles (albeit with the silver in combined and the bronze in super-g), considering that in slalom he does not start among the very favorites, while Faivre will remember this world championship as the most incredible of his life. The 29-year-old from Isola 2000 wrote a page in the history of French skiing, just think that a "cockerel" hadn't won the world champion since 1968, when Jean-Claude Killy triumphed in Grenoble in the Olympic review which, it should be remembered, was also valid for the world championships. And right from those days when the legend signed a historic hat-trick, no transalpine had ever won at least two world titles in the same event.
And to think that Faivre, this season, had obtained at most an 8th place in the first giant of Santa Caterina Valfurva, but the World Cup is just that. “Already the top 5 of the first heat would have been satisfactory for me - confessed Mathieu to the microphone of Ettore Giovannelli, correspondent of Rai Sport - It is a great surprise. Alexis? Sorry, but he has already won a lot and we know that the risks of winning are part of the game. Today was obviously my day ”.
And it is a great World Championship also for Marco Schwarz, who among other things will have his main card in the slalom next Sunday, after having already conquered gold in combined and an extraordinary bronze in giant, a specialty in which the Carinthian does not has never been on the podium in CdM. “Actually, I knew I was strong even in the giant, but I had never shown it in the cup. Today I went down quietly, also because my race is on Sunday. I am really very happy ”.
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Giant slalom Male Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)
FAIVRE Mathieu
DE ALIPRANDINI Luca
SCHWARZ Marco
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2021 cortina world championships
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Friday 19 February 2021
2021 cortina world championships
Friday 19 February 2021
2021 cortina world championships
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Friday 19 February 2021
2021 cortina world championships
The second blue medal arrives in Cortina! De Aliprandini in silver on the day of Faivre
Friday 19 February 2021
2021 cortina world championships
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