Sofia closes behind Huetter and Gut. The US star returns to the track without risk. Italian: Elena Curtoni, Brignone and Pirovano fourth, fifth and sixth
Journalist
December 21, 2024 (changed at 2.24pm) – MILANO
The queen is back. After 2141 days, Lindsey Vonn is back on track, at 40 years old. Sofia Goggia is there: third podium in three races with the success and second place of Beaver and the third today, in the super-G in St. Moritz won by the Austrian Huetter ahead of Lara Gut. And Italy shines with 4 athletes in the top six: Elena Curtoni (increasingly confident), Federica Brignone and Laura Pirovano finish behind Goggia. The gaps are minimal: Huetter wins his eighth Cup success in 1'15″18, behind him 12 athletes in a second, from Gut (at 18/100) to Goggia (33/100), to the Italian team: Curtoni at 42/100, Brignone at 43, Pirovano at 70.
tris goggia
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Sofia Goggia collects the 57th podium of her career, with some regrets for a final in which she lost her entire advantage. “St. Moritz is always a difficult super-G – comments Sofia to Rai microphones -. There are many waves, bumps and blind spots. I didn't ski very well, I was more tense than in Beaver. It's not a bad performance, but not a very good one either. Three podiums in three races is absolutely not bad: clearly I know that compared to how I skied today there is some margin, it's okay, not all the donuts come out with a hole some information on the route but with the 31 you found a slightly more marked track”.
Lindsay here again
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After the bronze in super-G at the World Championships in Are, on 10 February 2019, Vonn had to end a career halted by a long series of accidents and injuries. In the spring she underwent surgery to place a prosthesis on her right knee, Lindsey tried skiing and decided to try again. It started with the 31st, after a meticulous reconnaissance. She faced the traps set by the Italian coach of the French, Marco Viale, never gave the impression of taking risks and is 14th at 1″18 with two top partials and two calmer ones.
the reactions
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The competition began with Laure Gauche's bad fall on the final jump, the other Frenchwoman Miradoli also out. In the 10th the Olympian Ledecka returns (seventh with Macuga at 75/100), Puchner confirms herself (ninth at 76/100), then Suter at 80/100 ahead of Marta Bassino, who was in line with the podium until last partial. Thirteenth is another Italian, Roberta Melesi (at 1″01). Asja Zenere also scores points, 26th at 2″19.
“I suffered, instead of going to look for the doors, I was in time in two points – is the comment of a Brignone who is not satisfied -. It makes me angry, I can't do what I would like”. Laura Pirovano is sixth: “Who knows if one day I'll be able to take that step forward. It's already gone better than in Beaver, let's hope to continue like this”.
the ranking
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Still absent Mikaela Shiffrin, who is recovering from the fall in the Killinkgton giant which caused a deep wound to her abdomen, the Swiss Rast remains at the top of the general classification with 287 points ahead of Huetter (250), Shiffrin (245) and Goggia (240). Another super-G is scheduled for tomorrow in St. Moritz.
SuperG women in St. Louis. Moritz (Svi): 1. Huetter (Aut) in 1'15″18; 2. Gut-Behrami (Svi) at 18/100; 3. Goggia at 33/100; 4. Curtoni at 42/100; 5. Brignone a 43/100; 6. Pirovano a 70/100; 75/100; 7. Ledecka (R.Cec) 75/100; 10. Suter (Svi) 84/100; March at 1″01; 26. Genere at 2″19; 41. Thaler at 3″07; 42. It. Let’s go to 3”14.
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