About ten months ago, in the midst of her battles in all the disciplines that alpine skiing allows, it was on the short turn that the Obwalden obtained her best results. Almost to everyone’s surprise, and perhaps a little to herself. Better, last season, apart from the opening slaloms in Levi (Fin), Michelle Gisin chained the top 10 like pearls (6th, 6th, 3rd, 10th, 4th, 6th, 4th, 3rd and 10th). But this year, the backlash was violent: only one place in the 20.
For seven years, Dominique’s little sister worked on the Labors of Hercules. Every weekend, every possible race imaginable was on his agenda. Never a dead end, never a tactical package to take a breather. But her sluggish results began to tickle her and make her evolve. Two weeks ago, Gisin took the arrow for the first time and avoided the Semmering slalom between Christmas and New Year. A sign of an evolution in his thinking, confirmed this Tuesday.
She is still at the start of the legendary Flachau event this Tuesday, but for a last stand. The World Cup train from Saalbach, at the beginning of February, had already left without her anyway. Wendy Holdener, Mélanie Meillard, Camille Rast and the surprising comeback Eliane Christen have achieved the minimum requirements for qualification for the Saalbach World Championships for days, i.e. a top 7 or two top 15s.
-The future wife of Luca De Aliprandini is starting to feel the weight of the efforts made in recent years. Not necessarily in the legs, but rather in the head and she hit rock bottom at the start of the season, during the North American tour. “I cried like a baby for three days,” she explained in her podcast Got the Schlitteaccording to remarks reproduced by Blickbefore explaining to this same media: “I opened Pandora’s box for the first time, all the emotions had to come out.”
The Obwalden will focus on the speed disciplines and the giant, where her experience and her extraordinary touch of snow can pay off the most. “It’s been an incredible 12 years in the slalom World Cup and I’ve given it my all. I am very grateful to have been able to make 103 starts, to have had the chance to dance with the best and to experience all these incredible moments. It’s time to concentrate my energy on the three remaining disciplines,” said on Instagram the one whose slalom counter will therefore stop at 45 top 10s, 9 podiums and one success.
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