Alpine Skiingmen's world cup
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A Levi, the Norwegian and the French gave birth to the first major duel of the season. Their post-race impressions tell us that ...
Sunday 24 November 2019 4 minutes reading time
Henrik Kristoffersen vs Clément Noel, with the other neighbors but ... far away.
They were the two favorites of the eve, for the first men's slalom of the 2019/2020 World Cup, and by chance they finished in front of everyone, albeit in a tight, balanced race (as traditionally in Levi) and a little crazy in the final, with the Frenchman who made a few smears of too much at the beginning of the wall and opened the door to the triumph of the one who, taking out the "Black" for the second time in his career, also took the leadership of the World Cup with 13 margin points on an Alexis Pinturault to say the least disastrous in the 1st round and out of the 30.
Once Soelden was canceled in one fell swoop, Kristoffersen rediscovered all the slalom automatisms, where he had not won for over 22 months (Kitzbuehel, 21 January 2018): "It is a fundamental success - Henrik commented on NRK microphones in the post race - I didn't think I could still win after the 1st heat, but here in Levi you can lose it in the flat stretch and win it steeply. In my case, I took it home to the wall ... ".
Success n ° 19 in the World Cup, the 16th in slalom to reach Marc Girardelli in 4th place all-time, behind Stenmark (40), Tomba (35) and Hirscher (32): “I took Kostelic off, right ? - asks Kristoffersen (also Raich, at an altitude of 15 with the new 40-year-old Croatian, ed) - It is' a good sum, really ".
Who does not want to have too many regrets is Clément Noel, thinking only of the fact that a little more than a month ago, the 22-year-old from Remiremont was still in doubt whether to be able to recover for Levi's opening, after the stop of the first autumn period due backache. "That's right, I skied a little and so it's a great result - the words of the transalpine - In the second I made some mistakes, it's true, but I bring home a nice podium even if it's obvious, at that point I wanted to win. The pain has disappeared since training in Tignes, this is fundamental considering the rest of the season ".
The duel between the rapid gates promises to be already hot ...
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KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik
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YULE Daniel
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