Alpine skiing, Lake Louise descent: success for Sofia Goggia, it is the 18th victory in the World Cup

Welcome back Sophia! There couldn’t have been a better debut for the blue queen of speed: in the downhill at Lake Louise Goggia is practically perfect and finishes in 1’47″85 ahead of the always formidable Swiss Corinne Suter, second by just 4100, and the Austrian Cornelia Huetter, delayed by 6100. The other blues: Irene Curtoni is 8th at the finish line, Nicol Delago excellent 12th with bib number 30, Marta Bassino 21st at her debut in Canada, while Laura Pirovano, returning from last season’s bad injury , finished in 23rd place, followed by Nadia Delago 27th and Karoline Pichler 34th.

I’m eighteen

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After a first intermediate in control, Goggia let loose and at that point no one was able to overcome her, for triumph number 13 in the downhill, which allows her to definitively detach Isolde Kostner, with whom she shared the first position in the ranking of the Italian most successful in the specialty. Speaking of numbers: after 3 successes out of 3 races last year in Lake Louise, now they are 4 out of 4 waiting for tomorrow’s downhill (8.30 pm) and Sunday’s super-G. If you were to make another strand, you would momentarily reach Federica Brignone, who at the moment leads with 20 World Cup victories, against 18 in Bergamo.

No men

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A real snow and wind storm forced the organizers to cancel the men’s world cup downhill scheduled today at Beaver Creek. Another downhill is scheduled for tomorrow and a super-G on Sunday. Meanwhile, again for the men’s season, good news arrives from Val d’Isere. The snow control was successful and therefore the green light from the FIS arrived for the races scheduled in the French resort, a giant and a special scheduled for 10 and 11 December next.