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Restart by Holdener and Gisin: Skiduo finally sees light at the end of the tunnel

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What does the new season bring? Michelle Gisin comes from a complicated winter in which a lot went wrong.
Mathias GermannSports reporter

There is only one discipline in ski racing that everyone trains: the giant slalom. But it is precisely in this basic discipline that Wendy Holdener (30) and Michelle Gisin (29) did not put one foot in front of the other last winter. “That’s why I thought about giving up giant slalom in the spring,” Holdener said. And adds: “It irritated me because I continued with it for so long, but the results were not forthcoming.” We remember: In 2020, Holdener ranked 6th in the Giant Slalom World Cup – in subsequent years he ranked 22nd, 25th and 17th.

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The woman from Schwyz has canceled her plans to focus exclusively on slalom. Why? Because they trained well on the giant track. And so she is really looking forward to the start of the season in Sölden, even though she is not one of the favorites on the Rettenbach Glacier. “I was already on the podium in the giant slalom – I want to go that way this season. In any case, I don’t feel like constantly riding around twentieth place.”

Gisin has a solid foundation again

Michelle Gisin feels exactly the same. She has had a catastrophic giant slalom winter and only reached the top 20 in one of the eleven races (12th place in Semmering). The reasons for this: she felt the long-term effects of her mononucleosis disease in 2021, could not find the right adjustment on the new Salomon material, lost confidence and, in her own estimation, “just drove poorly”.

Gisin explains: “The level in giant slalom is brutally high. Anyone from the top 7 can win on Saturday, I’m sure.” Her summer finally returned to normal, Gisin is fitter than she has been in years and has tried a lot with her soldier Christian “Gämp” Gamper and found solutions. ‘I’m not where I want to be yet. But at least the foundation is now solid,” she says.

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