Alpine skiing
Skier Weidle narrowly misses the podium – Goggia wins
After a mixed ski season so far, Kira Weidle returned to the Altenmarkt-Zauchensee downhill run. photo
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After a mixed ski season so far, Kira Weidle is back on the Altenmarkt-Zauchensee descent. But her fall during training was not without consequences, as she explains.
The Italian Sofia Goggia, the speed dominator of recent years, celebrated her first victory in her flagship discipline this winter. The Austrian local hero Stephanie Venier came second. Nicol Delago from Italy and Mirjam Puchner from Austria shared third place.
At the finish “a big weight fell off her heart,” Weidle told ZDF. So far this season, the 2021 World Cup runner-up has fallen short of expectations. A violent fall during training on Thursday was not without consequences for the 27-year-old. “Mentally, that was one of the hardest descents for me today,” she explained. It was “certainly not a perfect run”. Overall, Weidle said she was proud and satisfied. Her teammate Katrin Hirtl-Stanggaßinger came 40th, Emma Aicher was eliminated again.
Weidle finished 14th in the Super-G on Friday. On Sunday (11 a.m.) there is another race in the curvier of the two speed disciplines.