St. Moritz wins … bad weather: no encore hunt for Sofia Goggia
Sunday without alpine skiing CdM due to bad weather
There will be no way for Alpine skiing fans to quench their thirst for racing: the two World Cup events scheduled for today, the men’s special slalom in Val d'Isere (France) and the women’s super-giant in St. Moritz (Switzerland), have been canceled due to bad weather, which has forced organizers to send athletes back to their hotels.
So the chance of an encore for Sofia Goggia, who in the first Super-G, raced on Friday morning, had won a resounding success by placing ahead of Austria's Cornelia Hutter and Switzerland's Lara Gut Behrami, has faded. Goggia had also done well on Saturday in the downhill, placing second behind the U.S. Mikaela Shiffrin and the other Italian Federica Brignone.
Bad weather also halts the weekend in the men’s event: after Marco Odermatt’s success in Saturday’s giant slalom, with the Swiss able to finish the second run ahead of Austrian Marco Schwarz and Joan Verdú athlete from the Principality of Andorra, there will be no special slalom. For the men’s CdM, the season seems cursed: as many as 5 events have been canceled compared to the 7 scheduled to date.
Nothing changes, of course, in the rankings: as far as the women’s CdM is concerned, Shiffrin remains firmly in the lead in the overall (620 points, Federica Brignone è second with 425), while Sofia Goggia remains first in the Super-G standings with the 100 points she won on Friday. Among men, however, è Marco Schwarz is the overall leader with 160 points ahead of compatriot Manuel Feller, second with 124 in the overall ranking and first, at 100, in the slalom ranking.
