Skier Ester Ledecké did not win the second World Cup in Lake Louise. After twelfth place in Friday’s race, she lost off today and finished 22nd. Italian Sovereign Sofia Goggia won again.
In a small snowfall and with poorer visibility, Ledecká made a small mistake after the start. The bigger problem came in the diverted right turn. She rolled over slightly and lost the speed that the winner of the 2019 Lake Louise convention lacked for the rest of the race. In the finish, it lagged behind Goggia by 2.56 seconds, which meant a difference of 70 meters on the 3052-meter-long track.
“I’m sorry. Most of all, I’m sorry I don’t know why it happened, why I have such a huge loss,” Ledecká did not understand. “We need to work with the team to find out what’s going on,” she shrugged.
In the meantime, she noticed that, apart from the mistake, she was losing the most on the plane. “I drove better into the steep passage, I was higher there and I could take more speed into the plane, which I didn’t take for some reason,” she wondered.
Skis she said before Lake Louise said she was looking for a quick downhill could play a role. “So far, it looks like we’ll have to test far more pairs. We’ll try to go somewhere between the holidays, if there’s time, and maybe we’ll run some good ones,” Ledecká hoped.
Apart from the top 20 in the World Cup, Ledecká last finished in January last year in Bansko, Bulgaria, where she did not score after 32nd place.
Olympic champion and three-time World Cup winner Goggia dominated even in worse conditions, although this time she defeated American Breezy Johnson “only” by 0.84 seconds, while on Friday it was almost a second and a half. The reigning world champion Corinne Suter from Switzerland finished third.
Goggia won the sixth cup race in a row. “The weather today was completely different than yesterday. I rode a slightly calmer ride, it was not very good to see. But the ride was successful, it was easy for me,” said the Italian, who had to end last season due to injury.
The Super Giant Slalom program ends at Sunday in Lake Louise (6:30 p.m.). “I will try to get the best ride I can. I did that today, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. We’ll see what it looks like. I’ll do my best to be fast,” promised Super-G Olympic champion from Pyongyang.
World Cup downhill skiing in Lake Louise (Canada):
Women & # 39; s Downhill: 1. Goggia (It.) 1: 48.42, 2. Johnson (USA) -0.84, 3. Suter (Switzerland) -0.98, 4. Hütter -1.16, 5. Scheyer (both Cancer .) -1,33, 6. Delag (It.) -1,34, 7. Weidle (Germany) -1,44, 8. Puchner (AUT) -1,52, 9. Gagnon (CAN) -1.60, 10. Brignone (It.) -1.70,… 22. Ledecká (CZE) -2.56.
Running order (after 2 of 9 races): 1. Goggiaová 200 b., 2. Johnsonová 160, 3. Suterová 105, 4. Puchnerová 92, 5. Hütterová 86, 6. Delagová 80,… 15. Ledecká 31.
SP standings (after 7 out of 37 races): 1. Shiffrin (USA) 365, 2. Vlhová (SR) 340, 3. Goggiaová 215, 4. Slokarová (Slovenia) 210, 5. Dürrová (Germany) 201, 6. Liensbergerová (AUT) 187,… 21 . Dubovská (CZE) 73, 46. Ledecká 31.
Kilde also dominated the descent
Norwegian skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won the World Cup in Beaver Creek. On the challenging piste Birds of Prey, he won in front of Matthias Mayer from Austria.
Twenty-nine-year-old Kilde continued the triumph of Friday’s super-giant slalom. In Colorado, he achieved his first success since falling in training in January, during which he tore a cruciate ligament in his knee and had to end his year prematurely.
The winner of the 2020 World Cup defeated Mayer by 66 hundredths and scored his eighth career victory. “Unbelievable, I can’t believe it at all. It’s great for you to ride like this. I’ve never enjoyed skiing so much before. I’ve felt tired today, but it went well,” Kilde said.
Beat Feuz from Switzerland, the best downhill skier of the last four seasons, took third place with a loss of one second. Fifteenth was his compatriot Marco Odermatt and with 346 points leads the standings of the World Cup. In second place is Mayer (310), and Kilde (229) improved his third place thanks to the victory.
Another downhill is scheduled for Beaver Creek on Sunday.
Beaver Creek World Cup (USA):
Men & # 39; s Downhill: 1. Kilde (NOR) 1: 39.63, 2. Mayer (AUT) -0.66, 3. Feuz (Switzerland) -1.01, 4. Marsaglia -1.20, 5. Paris (both It.) -1,23, 6. Cochra-Siegle (USA) -1,24, 7. Hintermann (Switzerland) -1,28, 8. Hemetsberger -1,35, 9. Kriechmayr (both Austria) – 1.36, 10. Serjested (NOR) -1.48.
Running order (after 2 of 11 races): 1. Mayer 180 b., 2. Kilde 129, 3. Feuz 120, 4. Kriechmayr 109, 5. Paris 77, 6. Odermatt (Švýc.) 66.
SP standings (after 6 of 36 races): 1. Odermatt 346, 2. Mayer 310, 3. Kilde 229, 4. Kriechmayr 199, 5. Feuz 160, 6. Pinturault (Fr.) 125.
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