WORLD CUP – Three days after the race, the women’s downhill podium in Crans-Montana (Switzerland), counting for the Alpine Skiing World Cup, was changed on Tuesday by the International Ski Federation (FIS) following a stopwatch problem. Schmidhofer went from 4th to 2nd place, and the Swiss Corinne Suter found himself 3rd.
It’s an unexpected twist. Three days after the race, the podium for the downhill in Crans-Montana (Switzerland) was changed. All because of a stopwatch problem. The Italian Sofia Goggia remains the winner of the race but the Austrian Nicole Schmidhofer goes from 4th to 2nd place, and the Swiss Corinne Suter from 5th to 3rd place. Two Swiss women are paying the price for this revision of the time: Joana Haehlen (from 2nd to 4th) and Lara Gut-Behrami (from 3rd to 6th).
Crans-Montana
Brignone continues the Italian party
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This change to the podium follows a rare incident that took place on Saturday during the race in the land of watchmaking. The times of four skiers, all Swiss (Joana Haehlen, Lara Gut-Behrami, Priska Nufer and Jasmine Flury), could not be recorded by the electronic cells resulting in a long wait and then a very late officialization of the results.
Schmidhofer takes off 90 points ahead
“The cells in the arrivals area were set up too high“, explains the FIS in a press release. After two days of training the snow level had come down again following the multiple passages of the skiers and the snow melting due to the sun.“. The times calculated then with a manual system have been corrected by 13 hundredths of a second, as it should be in this situation, but these hundredths were subtracted instead of being added, details the FIS, hence the error. in the standings while the gaps were very close between 2nd and 6th place.
The change of podium changes the situation in the classification of the small downhill globe: the Austrian Nicole Schmidhofer takes off with 90 points ahead of her compatriot Ramona Sienbenhofer and 101 points over the Slovenian Ilka Stuhec while there are only two remaining races to go (victory is worth 100 points).
Crans-Montana
Knee affected and season over for Stuhec
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Crans-Montana
Crans-Montana results will be verified
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