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A splendid Sofia Goggia gives herself and alpine skiing Italy a big win in the second downhill in Val d’Isere (France), eighth race of the Women’s World Cup. The Bergamo team closes with a time of 1: 44.70 ahead of Saturday’s winner, the Swiss Corinne Suter. Third again Breezy Johnson. It does not start, as expected, Federica Brignone: preventive rest for her after yesterday’s accident.
This time there is no opponent who has: Sofia Goggia Not only does he repeat, from a purely technical point of view, the great descent on Saturday that earned him second place, but he also achieves an incredible 1: 44.70 that allows him to conquer the first victory of the season in the Val d’Isere World Cup, Useful to climb positions in the general ranking and to hook the top of the ranking of specialties. Behind her, Switzerland replicates the podium Corinne Suter, that, however, has to settle for second place 24 hundredths of a second after yesterday’s victory: what makes the difference is the last part of the descent, decidedly favorable to Bergamo compared not only to Suter, but also to the rest of the adversaries. Then the American Breezy Johnson confirms the third place, who plays the second place reaching 3 cents of the Swiss athlete.
The surprising Norwegian closes the top 5 Kajsa Vickhoff’s Lie, who with the number 30 is placed in fourth position 33 cents behind the winner, finishing ahead of the German Kira Weidle (+0.59). Further back, the other representatives of the blue patrol, today orphaned by Federica Brignone, who remained in preventive rest after yesterday’s accident: Elena Curtoni Closes in 15th place at 1 second and 37 cents from Goggia, 17th Laura Pirovano (+1.51), 24th Francesca Marsaglia (+2.11), 29th Nadia Delago (+2.27), only 40th Marta Bassino (+3.24) , who in fast racing definitely prefers slalom. Petra Vhlova remains first in the World Cup standings despite today’s 33rd position: the Slovakian is still 425 points ahead with a wide margin over Michelle Gisin (298). Fourth Bassino with 273 points, ahead of Goggia (266) and Brignone (248). Regarding the classification of the specialty, Sofia Goggia leads with 180 points, like Corinne Suter.
