When time chaos suddenly broke out: “I felt like I was being fooled.”

The Swiss are actually known for their precision. But a year ago there wasn't much to see: the women's downhill race in Crans-Montana was interrupted several times because the light barrier at the finish repeatedly failed. As a result, the time of 4 Swiss women was not measured, so it had to be done manually using a stopwatch. The race lasted 2,5 hours, and at the end of the day the following were shining from the podium: Sofia Goggia, Joana Hählen and Lara Gut-Behrami.

Only: Due to an objection from the Austrians, the times were recalculated again - a few days after the race. And it turned out that Nicole Schmidhofer was the second fastest, while Corinne Suter was third. Sofia Goggia's victory remained untouched. Joana Hählen as a tragic heroine The tragic hero was the Swiss Joana Hählen, who celebrated her first World Cup podium in Crans-Montana and fell back to fourth place after the Austrians objected. Days after the race, when she and the team had just landed on the way to Sochi for the next World Cup, the bitter news came.

“I had airplane mode turned off and was seeing tons of messages and calls on my phone. At first I thought: What's the point? Then I noticed how some female racing drivers started whispering,” she says in Schweizer View quoted. A little later she realized what was happening and had to cry. “I felt like a chicken and I felt like I was being fooled.”

Now, a year later, everything has turned out well for Hählen: she took home her first two podium places in Bansko and Rosa Khutor. She is also one of the podium candidates in the two downhill runs on Friday (10.05:10.30 a.m.) and Saturday (XNUMX:XNUMX a.m.) - not least because she is in the Training on Thursday landed in 3rd place . We can only hope that everything goes smoothly this year.

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When time chaos suddenly broke out: “I felt like I was being fooled.”

The Women's World Cup is in Crans-Montana this weekend. Crans Montana? There was something. Exactly: one of the strangest - and for many also bitterest - races in ski history took place in the posh Swiss resort a year ago.

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