The French skier won his first victory of the season, in the absence of two of the caders of the discipline, Shiffrin and Gut-Behrami, positive to the coronavirus.
Le Monde
This is the fifteenth victory of his career. The French TESSA WORLEY won the World Cup Giant of Lienz (Austria) Tuesday, December 28, in front of the Slovak Petra Vlhova and the Swedish Sara Hector.
has a little over a month of the Beijing Olympic Games, which will be held from 4 to 20 February, the Grand Bornand’s skier won his first victory of the season, in the absence of two of the caders of The discipline, the American Mikaela Shiffrin and the Swiss lara Gut-Behrami, positive to the coronavirus.
On the side of the other tricolores, Coralie Fras Sombet takes a beautiful 13 e place and the young clara saying ranks 20 e .
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Best time from the first round, the French has been able to thwart the traps of the second route (4 e time), disputed between shadow and light, to keep thirty hundredths of second in advance on Vlhova and thirty-eight on Hector.
eighth in Sölden (Austria) at the end of October, 5 e then 4 e in Courchevel last week, the bornandine rises in power this season by giant and made speak His science of the discipline to win his first race from Kronplatz (Italy), in January. Double World Champion of the Specialty, WORLEY is a great form before arguing a priori in a little over a month its third Olympic Games, where it has never won a medal.