2024-01-27 12:14:05
We were waiting for Cyprien Sarrazin, we discovered Nils Allègre! A week after “Cyp”’s historic double in downhill in Kitzbühel (Austria), it was his 30-year-old teammate who won the first Super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) this Saturday.
The Frenchman, who started with bib 18, succeeds Luc Alphand on this track, the last tricolor to have won a speed event here. It was in 1997. Nils Allègre scored the first victory of his career in the World Cup, he who had never been on a podium until now… He was ahead of the Italian Gugliemo Bosca (18 hundredths behind) and the Swiss Loic Meillard (at 25 hundredths).
Nils Allègre, brilliant winner of the Garsmisch Super-G. GEPA pictures/ Thomas Bachun/Icon Sport 2024 Icon Sport
Starting with bib 14, just behind Marco Odermatt who finished at the foot of the podium today, Cyprien Sarrazin was less efficient and occupies 11th place in the ranking after the departure of 45 runners. “I would have liked to have had a month behind (Kitzbühel), enjoyed the thing, and looked at everything that had happened,” he admitted during a press briefing organized at the team hotel. France on Friday and reported by AFP.
He will have a new opportunity to get on the World Cup podium this Sunday, with a new Super-G. The start of the race is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
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