Ski cross, Deromedis from punch to success in the World Cup

Simone Deromedis ends the season with a triumph. In the second challenge of the final stage in Gällivare, Sweden, the Olympic champion achieved his third World Cup success of the season, in addition naturally to the gold in Livigno. And in the aftermath of the punch and the premature exit due to the contact with Duplessis-Kergomard, the Trentino driver once again finds Edoardo Zorzi on the podium, third despite the fall in the final, for a new double podium for the Italian team, as at the opening of the season (with Zorzi himself) and as above all in Livigno, when Federico Tomasoni got his hands on the silver in five hoops.

PHOTO FINISH

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A victory, that of Deromedis, which came at the end of an exciting duel with the Canadian Reece Howden, winner of the general classification, which was only resolved in the photo finish with the 25-year-old from Trentino managing to prevail by a finger on his right hand. This is how the eighth career victory on the circuit takes shape for the Trentino native from Taio, a swag to which is added the 2023 world title and last month’s Olympic title. A contact with the German Himmelsbach in the upper part of the track put Zorzi out of contention in the final: third place however went to the man from Bergamo who finished on the podium as in the opening race of the winter in Val Thorens, when he was second behind Deromedis himself.

PEACE MADE

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“It was a great challenge with Reece, this time I beat him and I couldn’t have finished this crazy winter better – commented Deromedis -. I would also like to say a few words about the accident in race 1: the contact with Youri (Duplessis-Kergomard, ed.) was not regular, but I want to say that nothing was done with intention, it can happen. Yesterday’s outing gave me further energy for today and I demonstrated it on the field”. Out on drums, however, Federico Tomasoni.