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Among other things, Nina Ortlieb suffered a severe blow. © APA / EXPA / JOHANN GRODER
The first training session for the Downhill World Cup in Crans-Montana was clearly dominated by the Italian female skiers. The number one talking point, however, was the serious downfall of an Austrian and Swiss woman.
January 20, 2021
Opening practice on Wednesday was overshadowed by the failure of Vorarlberg’s Nina Ortlieb. The 24-year-old, who finished third in Switzerland last year, injured her right knee and was taken to hospital, as did the Austrian Ski Federation (ÖSV). WHAT Release. As Ortlieb had to be rescued by helicopter, training was interrupted for about 45 minutes.
After the premature end of the season of former Super-G world champion Nicole Schmidhofer, who seriously injured her left knee when she fell in the World Cup downhill race in Val d’Isere before Christmas, the speed women Austria are threatened with the next setback. Ortlieb is likely to be out for a long time.
After Ortlieb, who had celebrated his first and so far only World Cup victory a week after third place in Crans-Montana with the Super-G triumph at La Thuile in Valle d’Aosta, the Swiss Rahel Kopp also fell hard.
Italian women dominate
The fastest in training was the Italian Sofia Goggia in 1: 29.83 minutes, ahead of the Swiss Corinne Suter (+0.20 seconds) and her partner Elena Curtoni (0.35). Federica Brignone was fourth, while behind Ester Ledecka, fifth, Francesca Marsaglia (sixth) and Nadia Delago (seventh) from Val Gardena, two more Azzurre entered the ranking. Of the top 7 athletes in this training race, 5 were from Italy.
Author: fop / apa
