The super-G trophy makes Federica the only blue able to take home three cups and to do it in three different specialties. The fast race, however, is also the one in which the Aosta Valley has enjoyed the most and in which she has grown the most. This title tells it all the way through
She has taken what she had to win two years ago, and which gives the right dimension to her career. The super-G Cup won by Federica Brignone with a race to spare after the 9th place in Lenzerheide – Elena Curtoni, the only one who could have reached her, was out before she went down – does not go down in history just to be the first brought home from a blue in this splendid specialty. It is the culmination of a run-up, the definition of the perimeter of the talent of the Aosta Valley. In 2019-20, the year in which she took home the overall World Cup, Federica had also conquered the giant and combined titles – her other two strong points – but the one in the fast race had eluded her by 19 points in favor of Corinne Suter. To mock her was the race in La Thuile, at her home, where she had been second with a hundredth delay from the Austrian Nina Ortlieb. Had he won, her Cup would have been hers.
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Two years later, Federica completed the collection and this time, as she rightly pointed out, she will finally be able to lift the trophy in front of the public – it will happen at the Courchevel / Meribel finals – after Covid had imposed that her three 2020 trophies would go directly to her. at home. The super-G is not the specialty in which you started to win, but it is certainly the one that you enjoy the most and in which you have grown the most over time, combining technical skills with an ever-increasing propensity for speed. The super-G has meant a lot to her in the last year: in this specialty she had obtained, in February 2021, the victory in Val di Fassa which had rekindled a flame that seemed to be extinguished, after the disappointment of the Cortina World Cup. And in super-G she won three races this year, in St. Moritz, Altenmarkt and Garmisch, which sealed the Cup. At the Games she went badly, she didn’t find the feeling with the track. It happens. Beyond the controversies and external “rumors”, the important thing is to have found Federica.
March 5 – 5:13 pm
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