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Her furious start to the season buttresses Michelle Gisin’s place among the best in the world. The off-road victory premiere should now follow.
To say that Michelle Gisin had a good start to the season would be an understatement. Engelberg’s wife started the ski year with fourth place in the Sölden Giant Slalom. Then he was fifth on Saturday at the Levi Slalom. The next day, in the recap, she followed the podium, second only to Petra Vlhova. Pure constancy mixed with familiar versatility.
It is now well known that Gisin has a really fast slalom swing. Why are there “only” 2 slalom podiums among your podium positions (from Sunday 9th) at the World Cup? “He often drove really well in the first race and then dropped out in the second or was in the mood to do so,” the 26-year-old explains on Insta-Live with SRF. “Slack and self-image” were temporarily lost, now everything is back.
31 hundredths prevented the premiere of the victory of the combined Olympic champion from Sochi. Now you automatically focus on your first World Cup win? “I have found again the belief that it is possible. Petra [Vlhova] and Mikaela [Shiffrin] They’ve been so dominant in the last few years. “Levi’s performance was” like a relief to everyone “that they could keep up with the best, according to Gisin. She was also” caught off guard. “
Unbreakable love speed
Pole forest okay. But Michelle would not be the sister of Olympic downhill champion Dominique if she were not very comfortable with fast disciplines. The first winter descent is on the program for alpine women just under a week before Christmas in Val d’Isère.
Gisin has special memories of the place in the French Alps. Here he achieved his first podium at the World Cup in 2016 with a second place in the combination. The next day, he caused a stir in his first World Cup downhill race with 7th place, and that with 51st start.
Even if his love between slalom and speed disciplines is “evenly distributed”, when in doubt, Gisin would prefer a cow to a reindeer. “For practical reasons,” the Engelberger said jokingly. To explain: the winner of the slalom in Levi wins a reindeer at a time, while the winner of the descent in Val d’Isère receives a cow.
In an interview with Olivier Borer, Gisin also explains why he was very happy not to travel to South America for a training camp in the summer and what about his partner Luca De Aliprandini’s knowledge of Swiss German.
