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With the cancellation of the races in Kranjska Gora, Norway has made trio of crystal balls. AAK won only once (like Thoeni ''71 -' '72), but with a frightening continuity ...
Thursday 12 March 2020 3 minutes reading time
He won only once in the season, legitimizing the final triumph with the beauty of twenty-two top ten conquered, including seven podiums.
For Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the crystal ball winner following the decision to cancel Kranjska Gora's races, the numbers are very similar to the season that led Gustavo Thoeni to the second career World Cup; it was the 1971/72 vintage and the ace of Trafoi brought home a success, with a total of seven podiums, for the second of its four pearls in five years.
Well, all the successive winners of the absolute World Cup have won at least two races in the season of final success, until this year when the Norwegian brought the trophy back home, eleven years after Aksel Lund Svindal and writing his name in the '' roll of honor after the Marcel Hirscher era.
Sure, Alexis Pinturault has achieved six partial successes and frenzy for the lack of chance to play the cup of his dreams in the two final technical tests, but the triumph of Kilde is more than legitimate if we look at the path and continuity of the Norwegian, competitive from the descent to the combined, passing through a phenomenal performance in giant. He would have won the super-g cup, without Hinterstoder's sensational mistake, and in the end he closes with only one crystal ball, but the most important one.
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