LA THUILE (ITALPRESS) – The home air is not enough but the World Cup is a little closer as the star of young Emma Aicher continues to shine ahead of a solid Sofia Goggia. The weather grants a reprieve and the first of the two scheduled super-giants is staged in La Thuile after the forced cancellation of the downhill.
All eyes were on Federica Brignone, who grew up in these parts, but the 34-year-old from Valle d’Aosta got caught up in the heat: after a mistake on the first stretch where she almost fell, the Italian tried to recover but ended up uprooting a gate in the middle sector of the 3-Franco Berthod and in the end had to settle for third place, 39 hundredths behind the 21-year-old German and also behind a mature Goggia, who saw victory slip away by a whisker.
Little bad however for Faith, because Lara Gut-Behrami is just behind, fourth, and so she gains another 10 points in the overall (1354 vs. 1022). “The result is a lot but I’m angry, I didn’t manage to be focused on my skiing – the regret of the Tiger of La Salle – I made a mistake that I shouldn’t have made, I attacked at full speed, I tried to catch up. It was one of the races where I managed to do less what I had in my head but the slope was bad, it didn’t give confidence and I’m glad I made it in one piece.”
Despite the efforts of the organizers, in fact, the treacherous snow spread the cards, and to this must also be added the long interruption due to an illness suffered by a track attendant that required helicopter rescue.
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(ITALPRESS)
