Val d'Isère (France) (AFP)
The Swiss Corinne Suter won the first descent of Val d'Isère on Friday, her first World Cup success this season, ahead of the Italian Sofia Goggia (11 / 100th) and the American Breezy Johnson (20 / 100th) .
The 2020/21 season could be that of confirmation for the 26-year-old Swiss, a great hope in juniors but long held back by health problems.
Strong last year of a lot of technical work in the turns, which came to reinforce her natural sense of gliding, the skier from Schwyz had won her first two World Cup victories, at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee in downhill then Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Super -G, and won the crystal globes of the two specialties.
The race was interrupted around 20 minutes after the fall of 11th competitor Nicole Schmidhofer, who missed a turn and rushed into the net at full speed.
The Austrian was evacuated on a stretcher.
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