Two months before the Beijing Winter Games, the Italian shows that her competitors will have to be very, very strong to deprive her of an Olympic double, four years after her coronation in PyeongChang.

Holder of the discipline's small crystal globe, after having won it for the first time in 2018, the 29-year-old skier, as on Friday, beat the American Breezy Johnson, relegated to 84 / 100th.

The Swiss Corinne Suter completed the podium at 98 / 100th.

Under a bright sun, Goggia had created huge gaps the day before, his runner-up Johnson pointing at 1 sec 47 / 100th.

This time, it crushed its rivals a little less, but under a heavy gray sky and falling snow, it is easily explained.

“Today, the weather was really different from yesterday. I knew that with the gap I had won (Friday), I could have ski without pushing 100%, so I had it. And I had a really solid run, because you can't gauge the track like when it's sunny, ”she explained.

The Italian Sofia Goggia, during the descent of Lake Louise, December 4, 2021 Patrick T. FALLON AFP

Victorious for the 10th time in downhill (the 13th time in the World Cup), the skier from Bergamo said that she lived "really a day of joy because I won my second victory in a row here (in Alberta where she is not had never won until Friday), which is also my sixth in a row "by counting the four successes gleaned between December 19, 2020 and January 23, 2021.

Shiffrin

Ten days later, her momentum was abruptly stopped by an injury to her right knee, which occurred while going back down the track in Garmisch (Germany) and which then deprived her of "her" Worlds in Cortina d'Ampezzo at the end of last season.

Now it's just a bad memory for Goggia, who does as well as Lindsey Vonn, also winner of six consecutive downhills in 2009-10 before winning Olympic gold in Vancouver and Picabo Street who also succeeded. this performance in 1995.

The longest winning streak in the discipline remains with the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who had won eleven times in a row.

Eight times in the 1972-73 World Cup, plus the first three races of the following season.

Spectacular skier, designated Italy's flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics next February, Goggia appears able to achieve a hat-trick on Sunday in Lake Louise, during the super-G concluding the weekend. in Alberta.

A meeting for which Mikaela Shiffrin will have to show a completely different face, after her 38th place, 3 sec 44 / 100th from the winner of the day.

Twelve ranks lower still than during the first descent on Friday

The American Mikaela Shiffrin, during the descent of Lake Louise, December 3, 2021 Patrick T. FALLON AFP

Rather specialist in technical events, the American with 71 record victories in World Cups, still remains the leader overall (365 pts), ahead of the Slovakian Petra Vlhova (340 pts) and Goggia (215 pts).

On the French side, Romane Miradoli confirmed her encouraging return, already glimpsed the day before (19th), a year after her rupture of a cruciate ligament in the left knee, this time ranking 13th, 2 sec 13 / 100th from Goggia .

Laura Gauche was placed 24th, Camille Cerutti 29th, Tiffany Gauthier 40th.

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