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The third place in Wengen brings Giuliano Razzoli back to a World Cup podium six years after the last time, in the same place (even if the track was different). His emotion and ... Vinatzer's anger.
Sunday 16 January 2022 5 minutes reading time
A slalom of tears, the ones that Lucas Braathen sheds who wins in a daring way, thanks to the clamorous mistake made by Henrik Kristoffersen a few doors from the end, but which we also see welling up on Giuliano Razzoli's face.
Pure emotion for the 2010 Olympic champion who, at the age of 37 last month, returns to the podium in the same place, Wengen, where he was second six years ago behind Kristoffersen and in front of Gross, even if that 17 January 2016 was competed on the Lauberhorn finish due to lack of snow on the Maennlichen.
Paolo De Chiesa himself reiterated it several times: this Razzoli skis on the steep in an even better way than that of the beautiful days, from 2010/2011 or precisely in the period of Wengen 2016, when he showed up the following week in Kitzbuehel with breastplate No. 1 and broke the crusader after 4 gates on the Ganslern.
There the career of the “Razzo” changed again, but this third place, which is added to the three top ten in Val d''Isère, Campiglio and Adelboden, demonstrates how a champion remains such also and above all in the mind. And with this placement, the “boy” from Villa Minozzo is fourth in the slalom ranking, increasingly open, and 16th in the WCSL and therefore one step away from the second sub-group, just before returning to Kitz, next Sunday. "I was afraid of being fourth by now - confessed Razzoli to Ettore Giovannelli, in the post-race interview granted to Rai Sport - Here I got on the podium 6 years ago, just before I got injured, it's a really great satisfaction for someone who doesn't he is more young, I have been waiting for you for a long time and I believed in it.
Maybe in the second heat I conceded a little too much at the start, but it wasn't easy with the sign. It is a podium for the many people who have followed me and trusted me over the years, a gift for them. The Olympic Games? Yes, the goal is that, but today let's enjoy this result ”.
If in the perspective of Beijing 2022 the 13th place of Manfred Moelgg is also important, chasing an Olympic pass that cannot be taken for granted given the small contingent of the men's team, today the anger in the Azzurri home is all for Alex Vinatzer, really unfortunate in that impact with the pole that made him fall to the ground, when he was traveling to finish in front of Braathen and ... the rest is needless to underline. It seems a bit like the season of lost opportunities for the Gardena, whose speed cannot be argued, but with Kitz, Schladming and then the Olympic race on the horizon, there are still opportunities.
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