Kitzbühel, the myth of white fear.
A place of legends.
The names of the winners hang on the cable cars and are anchored in memories.
Like a try at Eden Park or a goal at the Maracana that nothing can erase.
Neither fashions nor years.
Which invariably leaves a ceremonial costume falling on the shoulders of the event.
It touches the sublime, the inaccessible.
Before Cyprien Sarrazin's spectacular and resounding double in the frightening Streif, only four French people had won the laurels in downhill (Adrien Duvillard in 1960, Guy Périllat in 1961, Jean-Claude Killy in 1967 and Luc Alphand twice, in 1995, then in 1997).
Winner on Friday (with 5 hundredths ahead of the Italian Schieder), the Frenchman did even stronger on Saturday (the Swiss Odermatt relegated to 91 hundredths, the Italian Paris to 1”44).
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