she is only fourth in the Super-G of Kvitfjell in Norway – Corriere.it

In the second super-G of Kvitfjell the weather conditions suddenly change and thus the scenario of the race and the result change. The big bug Sofia Goggia: she was one step away from returning to victory in a discipline she loves but which has recently given her more trouble than joy, but in the end she ended up with a mocking fourth place. There were two completely different super-Gs: in the first she won, in the second the Austrian Nina Ortlieb who dragged two other eaglets to the podium, Stephanie Venier and Franziska Gritschfor a red and white hat-trick not seen since 2005..

False race? Certainly: at one point it even had a comical trend, with the competitors with the highest bib number – therefore not the favorites – who descended and managed to go much faster than the best. The world is going upside down, but skiing is an outdoor situation sport and the athletes know that there can be upheavals along the way. The one staged on the Olympiabakken has very few precedents: at the beginning it was snowing heavily and there was a wind – already an uncontrollable factor in itself – which made people accelerate or brake depending on the direction from which it was blowing. In this context, the Swiss Flury had taken the lead – a few weeks ago she graduated as downhill world champion – but Sofia had managed to place the overtaking paw, after other favorites, from Elena Curtoni (leader of the classification of specialties), to Gut-Behrami, to Shiffrin, to Brignone, had finished behind. L’era ra ”(she was now) commented Sofia in the Bergamo area, anticipating the sixth center of her career in a specialty of which in 2019 she had been world vice-champion, but in which she hadn’t hit the ball for a while . It would have been her twenty-third success in the World Cup (the number 121 of the women’s Italy) and her forty-eighth podium. But all of a sudden it stopped snowing, visibility and light drastically improved (there was even a flash of sunshine) and the wind stopped being a meddler.

Just another race: Gritsch, Venier, and finally Ortlieb blew up the bench in sequence and Goggia was left with the wooden medal. L’era ra ma non era ra tried, again in the Bergamo dialect, to put it on the jokey side. Per had the boxes turned, even if in these cases we must put the positive aspects first: I never apologize, however it is clear that the conditions have not been fair for everyone. On the other hand, I’m happy with my performance: I went down with a wolf time, I had courage and character. And I told you that I have to rediscover super-G because I’m strong here too. The turnaround also worsened the ranking by Elena Curtoni (she was in the top ten, crashed twelfth) and highlighted Federica Brignone’s race no: she made a serious mistake, finding herself almost on the ground and having to restart from rest. I chose a heck of outdoor sports, but first of all I messed up were the words of Faith, furious in the first place with herself. The good news, for her and in a blue key, is that the opponents for the specialty cup, with only the super-G on March 16 at the Soldeu finals to go, went slowly and were in turn swallowed up by the weather shuffle. So in the final sprint in Andorra Elena Curtoni will be in the lead again and with the red leader bib: she has 332 points, 19 more than the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami (313). Followed by the Austrian Cornelia Huetter (307), the Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel (306) and Federica Brignone (288). Mikaela Shiffrin stops at 222 already arithmetically out of play. So, she wrestle at five. And let’s go Elena: after the downhill cup in Sofia Goggia, Italy can double up with the super-G and confirm that the queen nation is the queen nation in women’s sprint.