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Lara Gut-Behrami. Her again. Even in the fourth giant slalom of the winter, the Ticino woman is clearly the fastest Swiss woman. After fifth place the day before, the 32-year-old reached the podium in Mont-Tremblant (Ka) – second place. She not only retained the red jersey of the overall leader in the World Cup discipline, but also avoided a Swiss embarrassment. Because: Only Michelle Gisin makes it to the second run, the Engelberger comes 23rd.
Gut-Behrami can still dream of a victory at halftime, she is only 29 hundredths behind the leader. What comes next? A blind flight – but a very strong blind flight. Gut-Behrami attacks despite snowfall and strong winds, drives accurately and almost never slips. About SRF she says angrily: “It was a joke, you hardly saw the goals. I wonder why you have to race in such conditions.”
It’s insane that such a competition is even being held. “Luckily you don’t get hurt. In the middle section I didn’t even know where the goals were. I was about to quit. It’s ridiculous to do a race like that.”
Only Federica Brignone is faster than Gut-Behrami, the Italian wins just like Saturday and is only five points behind in the World Cup giant slalom. “I trained in this weather for a month, with almost no visibility. “It paid off,” she says.
Gut-Behrami receives 45.3 percent of all Swiss points
Gut-Behrami has collected 45.3 percent of all World Cup points for the Swiss-Ski women’s team so far. What does that show? On the one hand, she is still performing at the highest level even at the age of 32. At the same time, head coach Beat Tschuor will also have lines of concern. The second guard has not come closer to the best in the world in the basic discipline of skiing, but rather has moved away from it.
Wendy Holdener comes 31st and narrowly misses the second point. It is quite possible that the woman from Schwyz has some fundamental thoughts. “I don’t want to avoid twentieth place. In any case, I was able to celebrate two podium finishes in the giant slalom,” she explained before the season opener in Sölden. Holdener is currently miles away from that. Her rankings in the four races so far speak volumes: 22, 23, 27 – and now she’s even missing out on the points.
It’s high time for speed racing
The other Swiss women also disappointed, with no one else reaching the second round. Vivianne Härri (34th), Camille Rast (35th), Simone Wild (38th), Mélanie Meillard (43rd) and Stefanie Grob (48th) would have liked a steeper, more technically difficult slope.
However, this also applies to Gut-Behrami – she shows her teammates that you can still be fast. Meanwhile, Andrea Ellenberger is not participating – she is having her knee, which was damaged after a training fall, examined in Switzerland.
The speeders soon get involved. The first downhill training is scheduled for Wednesday in St. Moritz GR – two Super-Gs and one downhill are scheduled from Friday to Sunday.
Source : Blick
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