The amazing Federica Brignone won the season finale in Solden with another great win! A place of honor for Alice Robinson and an incredible recovery for Austria’s Julia Scheib 14th at the halfway mark!
Mikaela Shiffrin (5th) also fell, beaten by her very surprising companion Katie Heinsen (gaining 13 positions).
Marta Bassino climbs to 13th place, Asja Zenere takes to twentieth
An epilogue like this to the first race of the winter season promises a lot of fun. In the meantime we have the certainty that it is Federica Brignone he didn’t lose a bit of his age. In fact, he may have increased it!
The end of the second heat is worth remembering as he probably won the race right in the last stretch after eating up the wall anyway.
He got the best one Alice Robinson che skied as well.
A powerful athlete, a fundamental characteristic of the Rettenbach, unless you have the magic of Federica in your legs. In this lap she paid even if she took almost 4 tenths from the Azzurra in the last heat.
He was the one who raised the white flag, in a decidedly unexpected way Mikaela Shiffrin. His accumulated gap right from the start is inexplicable. Slow in the changes, often under the pole, obedient skiing. So much so that she finished in fifth place for the 27th time in the finals, also behind her companion Katia Hensienbib 47, new stars and stripes.
What happened to the Queen is still a great mystery. We have to wait for his statements.
She probably suffered more than others from less than ideal visibility. By the tenth she was smitten Julia Scheib which is not surprising really, except that it is not often that he climbs from 14th place to the third step of the podium!
She did not succeed Marta Bassino to give himself podium heat. He didn’t make any mistakes but it looked like his ski stood up a bit on the wall. And without attacking you can’t go too far. She left the top five to finish outside the top ten, 13th.
A good race for Asja Zenere (20th) who always goes strong when she loses her temper! He certainly has room for improvement, especially in his success, considering that the sun was not on his descent like many others.
Good start though, for morale. What is certain is that she will have to take advantage of the technical faults that will be reported on her for the other races. The understanding is that the shot is in the room, it is necessary to fix the viewfinder.
Lara Colturi Can’t complain: two solid heats with some parts at the same level as the top 3 and something to settle, especially in terms of attitude, in others. It seems like a bomb ready to explode, all that’s left is to wait for the probable explosion!
The second heat of the American was sensational Nina O’Brien: 21 at the halfway point of the race, in second place she put her immense talent to good use which often comes against too much enthusiasm. She was about to make the same mistake in the second one but she miraculously managed to pull herself up from that excessive tendency without losing speed.
He would have been the best heat of the day if his teammate had not stolen this symbolic prize from him Katie Hensien, 24 years old, bib number 47, interpreter of a technique that is as amazing as it is effective. Austria was the first to be conquered Julia Scheib26 years old, 6 hundredths slower in this second set. Their position will change a little: above them were only Brignone and Robinson