2021 cortina world championships
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Cortina 2021: the Austrian's double gold, as it hasn't happened since the days of Bode Miller. Sander between bitterness (that penny ...) and joy for the first podium at these levels, even in Feuz the crossbar didn't go down ...
Sunday 14 February 2021 3 minutes reading time
A golden double that only Hermann Maier and Bode Miller had been able to sign in a world championship between super-g and downhill.
Twenty-two years after “Herminator” and at 16 from the one-two of the Franconian ace in Bormio, it is Vincent Kriechmayr who takes all the glory in Cortina, bringing home a title that was missing from Michael Walchhofer at Sankt Moritz 2003. “Thank you”, he smiled thanking for the compliments in Italian, once he reached the Rai microphones for the post-race interview with Ettore Giovannelli. After the super-g, the Vertigo was again golden for the 29 year old from Lower Austria, who only needed 8 cents in two races to capture a double that places him on a different level compared to the splendid career he had so far .
"It was not an easy race, all the favorites made some mistakes and I myself thought I was too round, especially at the bottom where I lost - Vincent's analysis - No, I would never have said I could win, but it is it was enough and I will certainly never forget these days and this place, which for me becomes magical ".
Andreas Sander was beaten by a cent in this world championship descent, but it is more happiness than anger at the mockery, if we consider that the 31-year-old German has never been on a podium even in CdM. “I can only be happy, for me it is a great result
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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2021 cortina world championships
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