Shiffrin against Vlhová: It couldn't be more explosive

The reason is the current complaints from Shiffrin's camp against the coaches of the increasingly strong Slovakian. According to her, Vlhová's supervisor Livio Magoni has been specifically scouting the American during training for years. This is not why Shiffrin, who has long been considered unbeatable in slalom, has found an opponent on an equal footing in Vlhová.

Record prize money of 70.000 euros Only the Eastern European was able to defeat the US girl in the slalom recently, and she recently ended the US girl's current winning streak in Zagreb. This gives the next duel between the two slalom superwomen additional spice. A year ago in Flachau, Shiffrin also lost the fight for the winner's check worth over 70.000 euros and the title of Snow Space Salzburg Princess to Vlhová. Since January 2017, Shiffrin has only been defeated five times in 24 World Cup races - each time it was Vlhová.

What is striking is that Magoni neither denies the allegations nor shows a guilty conscience. In fact, there can be no question of (secret) espionage. “Mika is the best and it’s important for us to learn,” Magoni recently told NBC . “I look at all the good ladies, but I look at Mikaela very intensively,” the former success coach of Tina Maze and brother of the ex-racer Paoletta Magoni also told the newspaper before the Flachau race APA open to. Vlhová coach with a strange football comparison The Vlhova camp takes advantage of the fact that in ski racing you cannot train behind closed doors like in football or indoor sports. “That’s right. We’re being watched too. There is no law that prohibits that,” said amateur drummer Magoni with a shrug. He learned from his brother Oscar, who once played in the Italian Serie A. “It's as if Barcelona, Bayern, Monaco, Juventus and Liverpool were in the stadium at the same time. It would be unwise not to look.”

It's a privilege to be able to watch other people training while ski racing, says Magoni. “We sometimes train on the same courses.” Anyone who pays attention can learn a lot, he relies on video analysis and, above all, his expert insight. “We even look at how the coaches organize themselves around them.” He is of course aware that this might not be the best way to do it. “But it’s our job.” “We even look at how the coaches organize themselves around them. Vlhová coach Livio Magoni on the alleged Shiffrin espionage Vlhova's progress proves that this partial copy-and-paste apparently works. She probably won't be able to stop the clearly leading Shiffrin from her fourth overall World Cup victory. However, together with Federica Brignone, she is one of the first pursuers and recently won the first individual World Championship medals for Slovakia in Aare, also becoming giant slalom world champion. The first small World Cup crystal ball is scheduled to follow this winter.

The 18.00-year-old has a good chance again on Tuesday (20.45 p.m./24:1,80 p.m.) in Flachau, as the relatively flat slope in Salzburg suits the XNUMX m tall runner. Of course, the dress rehearsal went wrong for both of them. Both Shiffrin and Vlhová were eliminated from the Super-G at the combined event in neighboring Zauchensee on Sunday and were therefore no longer able to compete in the slalom. 7 Azzurre at the start On Sunday, two Italians stood on the podium: winner Federica Brignone and third-placed Marta Bassino. The Azzurre will also be well represented in Flachau: seven of them were registered for the starting field, including South Tyrolean Vivien Insam. The young woman from Val Gardena recently made her World Cup comeback in Zagreb and is now working on the necessary consistency.

In this SportNews -Video Insam talks about her return to the big ski stage:

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Shiffrin against Vlhová: It couldn't be more explosive

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