Reigning alpine combined world champion Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a crushing disappointment on the opening day of the World Championships when she had to retire.
of the United States Mikaela Shiffrin as the reigning world champion, was the early favorite for the alpine combined at the World Championships and was in a good position after the super giant slalom, when he was sixth, 0.96 seconds off the lead.
Shiffrin lowered the slalom leg just as strongly as expected and was only 0.08 seconds behind the leader at the last intermediate point, but two gates before the finish he made a mistake. Shiffrin’s ski went off the wrong side of the pole and she had to stop.
– What did I say about those translations! Why is that done in professional sports? Sports expert Kalle Palander your juice in the newsroom.
By this, Palander meant the worn track, which could already be seen by the first runner, who had won the World Championship gold Federica Brignonen in the bill. Especially at the last gates, there was a lot of snow at the turning points, which Palanderi thought should have been removed.
– However, these do this as a job, and then the track staff or FIS are not interested in removing the fluffy snow from there. That’s really annoying, Palander gasped.
– When you knew that he (Shiffrin) would come at it harder than the rest and on a different line. I don’t understand how the coaches haven’t reacted to that. Yes, you have to give the coach a note for that too.
Palander reminded that the coaches themselves cannot go to lay the track or touch the shovel, but they can guide the track team in this matter.
For Shiffrin, the elimination was already the fourth in a row in the technical disciplines of the prestigious championships. Last year at the Olympic Games in Beijing, he failed in both alpine combined, slalom and giant slalom. In Pyeongchang, he won silver in the alpine combined.
Federica Brignone of Italy won the first championship of the World Championships in Courchevel and Meribel by 0.04 seconds ahead of Switzerland Wendy Holdener. of Austria Ricarda Haaser achieved the first World Cup medal of his career by taking bronze.
As many as eight pacers left the race and only 20 women started the slalom part.