Italy’s Sofia Goggia dominates the downhill at Crans-Montana
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Italy’s Sofia Goggia bounced again from her world championships disappointment in Sunday’s World Cup downhill at Crans-Montana.
Goggia was scorching favorite to assert downhill gold at Meribel final week however ended up disqualified, with the world title going to Swiss outsider Jasmine Flury.
Goggia put that reverse behind her to notch up her twenty second World Cup win and tighten her grip on a fourth downhill World Cup crown.
The Olympic silver medallist, who bagged gold within the 2018 Pyeongchang Video games, got here in 0.15sec away from her compatriot Federica Brignone, with Laura Gauche (0.41) in third for the French skier’s first podium end on the elite circuit.
Goggia’s win in a race delayed 24 hours resulting from poor situations on the Swiss ski station got here after an inauspicious build-up with a fall in coaching on Friday.
That accident left her strolling “with problem” on Saturday, the 30-year-old mentioned.
However she delivered when it mattered most with all her routine verve and risk-taking to safe a fifth downhill of the season.
It pushed her 179 factors away from Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec within the self-discipline’s standings with simply the downhills at Kvitfjell in Norway subsequent weekend and on the finals in Soldeu in Andorra to come back.
Lacking this weekend was Mikaela Shiffrin who has determined to maintain her powder dry and put together for subsequent weekend the place she is setting her sights on an 86th World Cup success to attract stage with the general file held by Ingmar Stenmark.