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The triumph in the Kitzbuehel downhill launches the Norwegian back to the top of the Specialty World Cup, waiting for the rematch on Sunday. Clarey and Giezendanner, a 2nd and 3rd place special for several reasons: the declarations of the protagonists.
Friday 21 January 2022 4 minutes reading time
He waited 29 years and the vintage of the post-injury return for his first time on the Streif, and that before seeing that Aleksander Aamodt Kilde today simply dominated the descent of the year, in the Kitzbuehel temple.
In seven seasonal races of the queen discipline, it is the third hurray for the champion norge (who has won three more times in super-g), now again master of the downhill classification and with a good margin, given that Matthias Mayer is second to -53 points and the same Feuz, Odermatt, Paris and Kriechmayr will have to earn something already on Sunday in the replica to keep open the games of a cup for which AAK is now the favorite, just like in super-g (where he commands with 61 points on Odermatt two proofs from the end). “It's a dream that becomes reality - he simply summed up on Eurosport's microphones - I had an incredible feeling and winning the Streif, one year after my injury, is a crazy feeling. Here you have to put everything together if you want to win, today I did it ”.
Behind Super Kilde, there is the joy of the transalpine couple who colored the other two steps of the podium. Extraordinary Johan Clarey, at 41 years and 13 days again capable of beating his seniority record for a top 3 in the World Cup, second as in 2021 on his favorite track, still one step away from his first triumph in the maximum circuit he would crown an eternal career (the veteran of the Equipe de France has risen to 9 podiums without success); equally to applause the performance of Blaise Giezendanner, who indeed took advantage of better conditions going down with bib 43, but he was very good and, with the first podium of his career at this level, obtained at 30 years, in fact he pocketed the ticket to Beijing. “This morning I was very nervous, as if I felt I could do something good - Clarey told“ Ski Chrono ”- I made a mistake, but I concluded behind only a monster. It's fantastic, today a top 10 would have been enough for me probably ... ".
This is how Giezendanner explained his enterprise. “I can't believe it, not yet at least, I'll understand it better in the afternoon - his words - It's something crazy, the first podium here just makes me think that there is nothing better than Kitzbuehel pivot skier. I'm living what Valou felt (Valentin Giraud-Moine, 2nd in 2017 on the Streif, with Clarey 3rd, before the terrible Garmisch injury) 5 years ago ”.
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