La Française finished fourth of the giant slalom of the Alpine skiing world cup finals, Sunday in Méribel.
Le Monde with AFP
Tessa Worley was disappointed and frustrated by the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. It can console yourself at the end of this season with its victory in the final general ranking of the World Cup Giant Slalom. By finishing fourth, Sunday in Méribel, of the ultimate event of the season, won by the Italian Federica Brignone, she won, at 32 years old, the little crystal globe of this specialty, as she had already done in 2017.
The French was second in the ranking before this last race, just five points of the Swedish Olympic champion Sara Hector. But this one passed next to this last competition (fourteenth). The American Mikaela Shiffrin, leader after the first round, and who could also claim to win the little globe, splash at the second round, ending seventh.
Despite several injuries during his career, Tessa Worley, presents on the circuit for more than thirteen and double Giant World Champion (2013 and 2017), has always been able to return to the summit. This winter, she signed four podiums including two wins, at Lienz (Austria) in December, then in Lenzerheide (Switzerland) two weeks ago.
“The victories this winter surprised me, and comforted in the work that I do, but I did not think it’s still regular and to hold a whole winter physically,” she confessed before the appointment of Méribel.
What to make me forget Beijing, where, flag carrier of the French delegation at the opening ceremony, she had missed his jo: she was out of the track in the second handle of the giant slalom, to pulling a Treat on an Olympic Medal Dream After a 16th place by giant in 2010, a plan in Sochi (knee injury) in 2014 and an off-top four years later in Pyeongchang.
“These were my last games,” had then announced the French at the end of the Super G of the Olympics.
“Go back for four years honestly it’s not going to do it,” she said. While adding not to ask “again the question of when will be the end” of his career. Its end of winter showed that it was not yet earlier.