“You can’t always win” says the song as the great sports champions know very well. And so the blue one knows it too Sofia Goggia who in Lake Louise did not repeat the magical performance of last year’s hat-trick but, after two victories in the two descents, she still finished well fifth in the first super-G of the season. The Swiss Corinne Suter won, narrowly ahead of the Austrian Cornelia Huetter. The Norwegian Ragnhild Mowinckel was third.
Goggia was betrayed by a few too many mistakes from the upper part of the track where he accumulated almost a second of delay, however managing to recover most of it in the central and final sections. For Italy there is also the beautiful sixth place of the Lombard Elena Curtoni and the ninth of the thirty Laura Pirovano, returning this season from injury. A little further back Martha Bassino 15/y. And then Federica Brignone a little disorganized closed 26 / a followed after the first thirty by Nicol Delago by her sister Nadia and by Karolina Pichler. Outside Roberta Melesi.
On the other hand, the Azzurri jets were completely disappointing even in the super-G of Beaver Creek. Suffice it to say that the best – if one can say so – was Mattia Cassand who ended up 19/o. After yesterday’s success in the downhill, the Norwegian Aleksander Kilde also won the super-G. For him it is victory n.15 in his career. Behind him his great Swiss rival Marco Odermatt. The two are fighting each other closely in the general standings: Odermatt 420 points and Kilde 380. Third place for the revived French Alexis Pinturault.
For Italy – on a very fast and extremely difficult track along the famous Bird’s of Prey slope – then Guglielmo Bosca is in the standings but only thirtieth while Dominik Paris – never competitive and also appeared in this race skiing without fluency, not central on skis and almost packed – he finished in 32nd place. Worse still Matteo Marsaglia 36/o, Matteo Franzoso 41/o and the veteran Christof Innerhofer 42/o. Last place for the young Nicolo Molteni.
The first North American away match of the men’s world cup ended with this super-G. There will be a second one for the first time, in the USA, at the end of February. Now we move on to Europe for a giant and special Saturday and Sunday on the French snow of Val d’Isere. The girls also return to Europe for the first Italian stage. Giant and special next Saturday and Sunday in Sestriere.
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