Ski, Federica Brignone wins the super-G World Cup

Lenzerheide has given its verdict: Federica Brignone arithmetically wins the super-G World Cup and becomes the first Italian with three specialty cups in addition to those in giant (2020) and combined (2019 and 2020) and, of course, at the 2020 general . Out of Curtoni,

In the most difficult super-G of the year, with a track that was not too fast but very technical, the first three athletes, all Austrians (Puchner, Raidler and Tippler) did not manage to reach the finish line by going off the track and, unfortunately, not only them. Elena Curtoni, 5 downhill at the Beijing Games and descended with bib number 5, immediately solved the blue derby by leaning too much and ending up off the track as her colleagues went down first, delivering the specialty cup to her colleague from Valle d’Aosta. A few athletes from the end leads the French Romane Miradoli, never on the podium in the Cup, ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin (+0 ”38) and Lara Gut-Behrami (+0” 88).

Federica, who came out of the gate already with the cup in her hands, still attacked taking great risks. Among the spectators in the parterre of the Swiss track, a luxury guest such as Roger Federer, the former number 1 in the world and 20 Slam champion who has recently resumed training after operations on his right knee. federica and Roger chatted: “I’m very happy – Federica said -, I’m sorry for Elena. She knew that today she had to go all out to recover and she ended up out of the game. I made a lot of mistakes, then I lost some trust and I’m sorry because I wanted to have a great match. What a thrill to meet Roger Federer! “.