Petra Vlhova forks, Mikaela Shiffrin wins in Levi
Petra Vlhova forks, Mikaela Shiffrin wins in Levi
When in the second slalom of the Moindo Cup in Levi it seemed that she now had her second consecutive victory in the bag after yesterday’s, since halfway through the second run she had more than a second’s lead over Mikaela Shiffrin after having beaten her by 76 hundredths at the end of the first, Petra Vlhova forked on the middle wall of the Levi Black giving the green light to the success of the eternal American rival.
89° success in the World Cup, 54° in slalom and seventh in Levi, one more than the Slovakian, for the Colorado star, who was 18 hundredths ahead of Croatian Leona Popovic, on her second career podium, and 30 ahead of German Lena Duerr, who has racked up 11 podiums, ten in slalom. Mikaela moves into the lead in both the overall and specialty rankings.
The only Italian qualified for the second run and also made it to the finish è was Martina Peterlini, who made a fine comeback from 28th to 12th place with the second best partial time. Now the women’s World Cup moves on to Zermatt for the Speed Opening, two runs next weekend, which hopefully can be held, but the failure of the men’s program due to all kinds of weather adversity does not bode well.
