Mikaela Shiffrin and Linus Strasser won the City Event in Stockholm

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A victory for granted, that of Mikaela Shiffrin, and unexpected, that of Linus Strasser, in the parallel slalom of the City Event in Stockholm.

Tuesday 31 January 2017 4 minutes reading time

The biggest surprises of the second round are the elimination of last year's winners, the Austrian Marcel Hirscher and the Swiss Wendy Holdener, at the hands of the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and other Swiss Melanie Meillard, but also of the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen , beat their German Strasser. Kilde Meillard and are then beaten in the quarter finals by Pinturault and Norwegian Nina LÃ¸seth. No blue managed to get to the semifinals: Giuliano Razzoli won the derby against Manfred Moelgg bruised for back pain but then in the quarters is eliminated by the Swede Mattias Hargin, as well as Stefano Gross, third last year, beaten by Strasser after getting the better of Frenchman Julien Lizeroux, among women Chiara Costazza after a victory over the Czech Å Ã¡rka StrachovÃ¡ StrachovÃ¡ he had to bow to the Swedish Frida Hansdotter. In the women's final and Veronika Velez-ZuzulovÃ¡ Shiffrin they get there, they have the upper hand in the semifinals respectively Hansdotter and LÃ¸seth, the Slovak, who had already won the City of Monaco Event at New Year 2013, we test until almost the end it is the US to win its 28th victory in the World Cup, the eighth season and his first in a parallel, third place goes to LÃ¸seth against the darling of Hansdotter home. Local public is better in small men's final in which Hargin, eliminated by Strasser, denies the second podium of his career to David Ryding, beaten in the semifinals by Alexis Pinturault. But in the end the unimaginable happens because Strasser, incredulous himself for what happened, burns Pintu for only 4 cents, and scored his first victory in the World Cup, he had never done better than fifth place in Schladming January 27, 2015 , but 23 days ago it was tenth in Adelboden. That of Strasser, who has only participated for the waiver of a Felix Neureuther bruised knee, is the first win of the season in Germany of Alpine skiing. As for the general classification of the World Cup nothing changes, or nearly so, in the male, while the female Shiffrin again takes off sull'assente Lara Gut, his lead is now 180 points. Now everyone in St. Moritz for the World Cup February 6 to 19.

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