Since the end of December, when “Fede” crosses the finish line, it is each time to take his place on the podium and often on the highest step. The 34-year-old Transalpine climbed onto the box for the 5th time in a month, with just one elimination in the middle during the first round of the Kranjska Gora giant. Otherwise? Three victories and two 3rd places in six starts!
She thus took the lead in the general standings of the World Cup, a hundred points ahead of Camille Rast. Sunday, at the Olympia delle Tofane which will host the Olympic races in a little over a year, the Milanese left no chance to her opponents, achieving the best times in… all sections of the event. This is the first time she has won in Cortina, after 14 years of failures.
Victory has eluded Lara Gut-Behrami for a little over ten months. But if there was nothing to do against this Brignone this Sunday, the Ticino was the only skier to compete in the same division. The 33-year-old Swiss conceded “only” 58 hundredths to the winner of the day, where the entire rest of the field finished a second or (much) more behind.
This time, for sure, Corinne Suter is back at the highest level. The thirty-year-old from Schwyz made it a point to shine on the very track where she tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the meniscus in her left knee exactly a year ago. Starting with bib No. 1, she confirmed her fine 5th place from the day before. A few weeks before the Saalbach Worlds, the Olympic downhill champion is back on time, celebrating her first World Cup podium since March 2023, in Kvitfjell.
-Another returnee experienced a big scare on this demanding track. Lindsey Vonn seemed on pace to reach her first podium in almost 6 years, when she made an inside mistake in the middle of the course. The 40-year-old American, whose last victory dates from March 2018, did not appear to suffer physically from her antics. She hit her helmet in annoyance, because there is no longer room for doubt: she is already at the level of the big names.
Far behind Gut-Behrami and Suter, the rest of the Swiss contingent struggled to survive. He was dominated by the Valaisanne Malorie Blanc (21 at 2”39), who gained a good dose of experience on this difficult track that she was discovering. Delia Durrer, Janine Schmitt and Priska Ming-Nufer were eliminated, while Michelle Gisin (22nd after the passage of 40 skiers), Joana Hählen (23rd) and Jasmina Suter (25th) finished more than two and a half seconds behind.
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