The French has been preceded by the Swedish Sara Hector, Saturday in Slovenia, and confirms its good form, after its victory, at the end of December, to Lienz, Austria.
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TESSA WORLEY does not stop! Victorious of the Giant Slalom of Lienz (Austria) on December 28, the French hung a new podium on Saturday January 8th in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia). She took the second place of the giant slalom behind Sara Hector, untouchable. The victory of the two sleeves, the Swedish imposed on a wide margin on Worley (+ 0”96) and on the Italian Marta Bassino (+ 1”32), third.
Already very just in his ski for hector hector in the first round (+ 0”’08), the French did not commit any error in the second round. A performance all the more impressive as many big names have passed by Slovenia, like the American Mikaela Shiffrin (7th, + 2”05) and the Slovak Petra Vlhova (15th, +2 ‘ ’55).
TESSA WORLEY has decided to go cautiously on the first meters of the track, granting time on Marta Bassino, part just before it. But once engaged in the slope, she has not stopped taking over to finish with a comfortable advance of 36 hundredths on the Italian.
in Olympic shape
In turn temporarily, at the end of his passage, the French did not have time to really believe in victory, the fault of a Sara Hector imperial and in great form after his success on one of the two Giants of Courchevel, December 22nd. With this success, Swedish takes the lead in the classification of the specialty.
But with this podium, Tessaa Worley has proven that his link victory was not a day’s performance, and that it will have to rely on it in the coming weeks. Especially at the Beijing Olympics in less than a month (4 to 20 February). The French, which has never been mounted on an Olympic podium, will arrive in China with the full of confidence.
The second round has been a source of frustration for the other two French chances, Coralie Frasse Sombet and Clara say, both in ambush in the top 15 after the morning handle. But the first committed too many mistakes in the top of the plot on the second, while the second failed to reproduce the same ski. Coralie Faux Sombet finishes 18th (2”92), clara say 21st (+ 3”60).