Lake Louise (Canada) (AFP)
The Queen of Lake Louise is Nicole Schmidhofer! The Austrian, already victorious in two runs last year, won the one of Saturday before the American star Mikaela Shiffrin and the Italian Francesca Marsaglia.
With Schmidhofer taking the number 9 bib on this track, she likes a first success this season in her favorite discipline, her fourth in World Cups where she added a Super-G in January in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, two months later. his double in Alberta.
The 30-year-old skier, winner of the world's first downhill Crystal Globe last season, was the fastest by crossing the finish line in 1: 14: 92: 100. And it was barely 13 / 100th, so that his runner-up Shiffrin won a 63rd victory that would have allowed him to overtake the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll.
The American, perhaps disappointed in her 10th place on Friday, has in any case shown that she was able to become equally sovereign in speed, she who dominates without sharing technical events and made the overall standings with 446 points , in front of the Swiss Michelle Gisin (176) and the Czech Ester Ledecka (150).
The latter, who created the surprise the day before taking the first downhill, confirmed by its 4th place, just behind Marsaglia, that it will now also rely on it in downhill skiing and not only in snowboarding, his specialty.
On the French side, Romane Miradoli was seventh, better than her 16th place at the end of the first run. Jennifer Piot finished 19th, Laura Left 34th.
Sunday, place at the first Super-G of the season, where Shiffrin and Schmidhofer could offer a new high-flying duel.
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