Full of confidence.
Tessa Worley who was circling around (3rd in Courchevel in December, 2nd in Kranjska Gora on January 16) brilliantly regained the first step of the podium on Tuesday, dominating the giant slalom at Kronplatz (Plan de Corones) in Italy.
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5th in the first heat (78 / 100th behind Swiss Michelle Gisin), the Frenchwoman took all the risks in the second heat to regain success.
The 14th of his World Cup career.
This allows him to get closer to the greatest specialists in the history of the discipline (20 for Vreni Schneider, 16 for Annemarie Moser-Pröll).
With a success which is like the first since Sölden, on October 27, 2018. In heaven, the Frenchwoman summed up: “I am very happy to have done this second round, to have been on the attack as I did. 'have been.
It's a track that requires a lot of heart.
It's not easy to have confidence on this track. ”
From Kronplatz the reaction of Tessa Worley after her sumptuous Giant victory @ FedFranceSki @ mongrandbo @ SavoieMontBlanc
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Bold, inspired, Tessa Worley beat the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami (0''27) and the Italian Marta Bassino (0''73), who looked like a scarecrow, she who has four Giant victories this season .
A moving success for Tessa Worley the day her companion Julien Lizeroux gets ready to compete in the last slalom of her long career, in Schladming.
The double world champion in giant slalom (2013 and 2017) slipped on
Ski Chrono
: “It has been a long time since I last won, I am so happy.
I knew it would be a big fight.
I wanted to take all the risks.
I wasn't thinking of winning, just giving it my all.
I feel that my form is improving.
So much the better for the world championships (from February 8 to 21 in Cortina d'Aampezzo) ”, she said.
After her 30th World Cup podium, the skier from Grand-Bornand added on
Eurosport
: “I'm so happy, a part of me told me that I could do it and then on the other side I said to myself that it was perhaps finished.
It's pretty funny, because two, three years ago before the Worlds, I won the race.
It doesn't mean anything but I have the impression that my form is improving and that's good. ”
With Alexis Pinturault, solid leader of the World Cup, Johan Clarey capable of brilliant shots (4th and 2nd in the Kitzbühel descents) and Tessa Worley totally revived, French alpine skiing is getting into the habit of hooking up pleasures.
The Slovakian Petra Vlhova, only twelfth behind the giant of Kronplatz (2''05 behind Tessa Worley), retains the lead in the general classification of the World Cup (with 883 pts) ahead of Gisin (783 pts).
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