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Sofia Goggia is the downhill queen of today. She secures the small crystal ball for the fourth time.
The Italian is the only logical winner of the downhill ball, after all she has only been able to beat herself for years.
Her record of the last 20 World Cup downhill runs stands for sheer dominance: 13 wins, three podiums, two 12th places and two retirements. But the bare numbers only tell half the story. Because Goggia doesn’t really work without ups and downs.
Crazy crowned year
The season started great. Goggia celebrated two victories in Lake Louise within 24 hours. Then came the weekend in St. Moritz. The Italian broke two bones in her hand on the first descent, went to Milan for surgery and won the second race the next day. I can’t imagine what could have happened if she had fallen in that race.
A trip to Dubai followed at the end of January, which Italian women’s coach Gianluca Rulfi does not like at all, as the highlight of the season was the World Ski Championships in February. There, Goggia failed to win the missing World Cup gold. In the downhill World Cup she managed to be disqualified with a threader.
In return, she again took the title of best downhill skier of the season.
In Kajsa Vickhoff Lie’s premiere victory – the Norwegian is the first Norwegian to win a downhill two years after breaking her tibia and fibula – she came second. Third was Corinne Suter, embarrassing a medium-sized Swiss.
Great legends are before her
Goggia has won more downhill balls than all other active skiers combined. Corinne Suter (19/20) and Nicole Schmidhofer (18/19) managed to break their dominance, Ilka Stuhec (16/17) won the small crystal ball before Goggia’s first success in 2018.
In history, with Renate Götschl (47) with five, Annemarie Moser-Proell (69) with seven and American legend Lindsey Vonn (38) with eight downhill balls, only great legends of skiing are ahead of her.
Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
