Dec 16, 2024 01:40 AM IST
ALPINE-SKIING/:Alpine skiing-Goggia wins girls’s World Cup super-G at Beaver Creek on return
Dec 15 – Italy’s Sofia Goggia made a stirring return to competitors as she received the ladies’s super-G in Beaver Creek, Colorado on Sunday for her twenty fifth World Cup victory in solely her second race since breaking her proper legin February.
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Goggia coated the Birds of Prey course in a time of 1 minute 03.90 seconds to beat defending total World Cup champion Lara Intestine-Behrami of Switzerland by 0.48 seconds.
Austria’s Ariane Raedler completed third for her second World Cup podium end with a run that bumped compatriot Cornelia Huetter, who edged Goggia to win Saturday’s downhill race, into fourth place.
“Today I felt happy and I brought my joy on skis and I said, with the number 13, one of the last numbers of the first group, if I end up with the green light then I am going to do the samba,” stated Goggia.
“But there is one thing, I am not Brazilian, I am Italian. I am from Bergamo, and Bergamo is well known for polenta so the only thing that I can do is polenta,” she added whereas mimicking the stirring movement of getting ready polenta.
The weekend at Beaver Creek capped a outstanding return to competitors for Goggia, who broke her tibia throughout an enormous slalom coaching crash in Italy 10 months in the past.
Intestine-Behrami set the early tempo in Beaver Creek however it was short-lived as Goggia, who went out 4 skiers later because the thirteenth of 49 girls from the beginning hut, took over with a brave and intense run.
Goggia showcased nice timing and energy, notably over the decrease parts of the formidable monitor, to choose up her seventh World Cup super-G win.
“It was not so difficult as a super-G but the visibility was really low,” stated Goggia. “But I knew that I had to stay a little bit like careful and pay attention to the first five gates and then I could let my horses run.”
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