For Alexis Pinturault a week on the roller coaster: "From pain to victory, I am relieved"

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The transalpine, which in the combined Bormio has achieved the third seasonal success in three different disciplines, in triumph despite the problem of the adductor of the left thigh.

Sunday 29 December 2019 4 minutes reading time

He is not at the top of the World Cup ranking, due to the dancer performance in the last two giants played after the Soelden victory (and let's add the parallel giant in Alta Badia), but he is the only one in the male sector to have won three races this season, among other things in three different disciplines. Alexis Pinturault ended in the best way a really complicated week, taking success and 100 points from the combined Bormio, dominated with a perfect heats in slalom after the 12th position in super-g at 97 cents by Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, to whom he trimmed almost a second and a half in the technical test. Far from trivial, looking at what the opponents have done. A very important result for the 28 year old from Courchevel, in doubt until yesterday as the 6mm injury to the adductor of the left thigh, remedied last Monday in the parallel giant on the Gran Risa, had forced him to stay in the pits until ski test carried out only on Saturday. And this morning he threw himself on a super-g super tough like that of the Stelvio, bringing out a champion performance, the best in this specialty. The 26th hurray in the World Cup (reaches the double K of Klammer and Kostelic in 12th place all time ...), 9th in combined in the career, it also means overtaking Henrik Kristoffersen in the overall of Cdm, in the ideal duel towards the dream of the crystal ball, even if there are Kilde and Paris in front. "I had doubts about what I could do, even if in the race I didn't feel any particular pain - he confirmed in the Stelvio parterre - I wanted to be there because it was an important race for me, I managed to bring it home and I feel relieved. The world Cup? The road is very long, there are many suitors and now a crucial period will come, with six slaloms in January. We will see in Zagreb, in the meantime I hope to get back 100% physically ".

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