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Soelden's third place means a fourth career podium for an ever-growing athlete.
Tuesday 29 October 2019 4 minutes reading time
Zan Kranjec will turn 27 on November 15th and, as already demonstrated in the opening on Rettenbach, he now seems ready to literally blow up the giant bank.
Without Marcel Hirscher at the starting gate, he seems to be the first rival in this specialty for Alexis Pinturault and Henrik Kristoffersen, probably even more than a Mathieu Faivre who still preceded him in the first race of the season.
Yes, because the Slovenian "silent bull" has climbed one step at a time in the construction, technical and physical, to be able to fight constantly in front of it, and the demonstration also comes from the enormous growth shown in the past slalom season; Kranjec obtained the fourth podium of the World Cup career in Soelden, all of which were obtained in giant. We discovered it basically three years ago, right on the Rettenbach when it ended with a great 4th place behind three top champions like Pinturault, Hirscher and Neureuther; in the meantime, the first podium arrived, two years ago with the third place in a temple like the Gran Risa (3rd place), and the consecration in the 2018/19 vintage, with the first victory in Saalbach-Hinterglemm and another third place, in the Soldeu finals race, in addition to 4th place in the specialty ranking, behind the sacred monsters Hirscher, Kristoffersen and Pinturault.
"In Soelden I did a good race, even though I could have done better in the 1st round, especially in the connection between the wall and the floor - said Kranjec, who was actually the best after Pinturault in the heart of Rettenbach - I'm still happy with having started with a podium, but in Beaver Creek I will try to do even better â€.
Oh yes, Zan has very clear ideas ...
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