Sofia Goggia seems to have arrived short of breath at the last decisive descent, the one that can assign her the third world cup as queen of speed.
After two non-thrilling tests, with the second also hit by excessive heat that made the bottom of the track soft and treacherous, the blue in fact confessed: "I'm fine but after the Olympic run-up I am now a bit in debt of energy. We have to hold on. After a crazy first part of the season and with an incredible advantage, with the injury in Cortina I then missed some descents and the points are now what they are ".
In fact, Goggia leads the specialty ranking with 482 points against the 407 of Swiss Corinne Suter, his only rival.
"Suter is skiing very strong, perhaps also loaded with the Olympic gold that she won", says Sofia, who in Beijing has nevertheless won a great silver behind the Swiss.
"I, on the other hand - is Sofia's not too reassuring observation despite her commitment to always giving her best - I have my tongue on the ground for a moment. But in any case I will hold on and do a nice video analysis with the coaches. them and in my concentration.
I'll do my race but it's a track where many can win. "
In any case, the important thing for the champion will be to stay ahead of Suter tomorrow or at least not stay too far away from her.
The 75 points advantage that the blue has over the Swiss are in fact a safety margin that is usually very reassuring.
The other blue ones are more confident for tomorrow, starting with Federica Brignone and Elena Curtoni both at ease on this new track which - it is known - should not be that of next year's world championships.
Both are hoping for a podium.
However, the race will also be important for the overall world cup.
The American Mikaela Shiffrin launched a trumpet blast with the best time in the last test: she wants to increase her advantage even more over the Slovak Petra Vlhova who in turn will be part of the match even downhill to leave no stone unturned in the race towards the cup.
For the last men's downhill of tomorrow there will be a great challenge given that there are even five athletes who can compete for the world cup of speed, starting with the Norwegian Aleksander and the Swiss Beat Feuz, Olympic gold medalist.
The blue Paris, who in the tests and was certainly not exciting, has however sworn that he will do the best of him as always.
The hopes for veteran Christof Innerhofer and Matteo Marsaglia are more positive after good tests and good sensations.
But tomorrow there is especially the Swiss Marco Odermatt to keep an eye on: he has 329 points ahead of Kilde and would already like to take home his first major world cup.