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Lucas Braathen pulled off the special coup
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The Norwegian Lucas Braathen achieved something historic at the World Cup slalom in Wengen.
The 21-year-old drove from 29th place after the first race to his second victory – that's unprecedented.
He benefited from the misfortune of his compatriot Henrik Kristoffersen, who retired shortly before the finish while in the lead.
With the best World Cup slalom of his life in the classic, Alexander Schmid completely surprisingly stormed into the extended world class and stepped into the breach for Linus Straßer.
While Straßer was merging in the finale, Schmid moved up from 28th to 14th place - and that with the last start number in the field.
"I wouldn't have thought that," said the German, who had never scored World Cup points in slalom before, "I'm very, very happy." had already been »madness«.
"It's just cool that I got my boot through," he said.
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