The 27-year-old skier has become a general surprise in Switzerland. No French had imposed in the world cup on a speed test since 2005.
Le Monde with AFP
It was seventeen years old that the blue were waiting for that! Romane Miradoli won Saturday, March 5 The Super G of Lenzerheide (Switzerland), signing at the same time the first French victory in a world cup speed event since Ingrid Jacquemod (Santa Caterina’s descent) in 2005. The last victory in Super G was the work of Carole Montillet at Haus Im Ennstal (Austria) in February 2004.
A historical performance gained from the general surprise, the 27-year-old skier has never done better than a fifth place on the world tour. “It’s crazy, I do not come back. The race was hard, but I was finally able to make a complete run from top to bottom. I did not think about it fast, I felt like Late at each door, “she said on arrival.
Part with the eight bib, the French has increased risk jacks on a very demanding track, lacking a few times out. But it is finally she who ended in the middle, ahead of the American Mikaela Shiffrin of 38 hundredths and Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, Olympic champion of the discipline, 88 hundredths.
The beautiful Mikaela Shiffrin Operation
A beautiful revenge for Romane Miradi, frustrated by Olympics where she had not managed to interfere with the fight with the best (13 e of the descent, 11 e
Second of the race of the day, the American Mikaela Shiffrin took advantage of the counter-performance of his Slovak Rivale Petra Vlhova (18 e ) to take 67 points ahead of the general classification. For its part, the Italian Federica Brignone, 9 e , adjudged the small globe of the specialty even before the last super-G, in Courchevel in two weeks.
Note that, behind the Romanesque Miradi, the other French people have also shone on the Swiss route. TESSA WORLEY won the sixth place of the event, a second and thirty-seven hundredths of their compatriot; Laura left, the ninth, two seconds and twenty hundredths.