Shiffrin manager rages: “Ridiculous”

In parallel races - whether in alpine skiing or snowboarding - one of the two courses is usually faster. And anyone who watched the race in Sestriere on Sunday will have recognized that the female runners were heavily favored on the blue course. This is proven by the statistics: the women only had the upper hand in 3 out of 20 duels on the red course.

In itself, this is nothing unusual; Albrecht actually found the format annoying. Because: Only in the qualifying and in the round of the last 32 do round-trip heats take place, after which it is decided in a run who goes further and who doesn't.

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The tricky thing is that the best in qualifying cannot choose the course, but are randomly assigned to a corresponding run. And this point infuriates the Shiffrin camp: “If you ( the FIS, note d. Red ) can't manage to fit two equally fast courses, then at least the fastest people in the qualification have the chance to choose the course," wrote the former Austrian World Cup athlete and current Shiffrin supervisor on Twitter. "That's ridiculous". Shiffrin and Wendy Holdener were cheated out of a better position.

However, Albrecht did not want to diminish the performance of the winner Clara Direz, against whom Shiffrin was eliminated, and emphasized that Direz was one of the few runners who also won a duel on the red course. Gut-Behrami not convinced Shiffrin herself refrained from criticizing, although she emphasized that “the two courses were not at all the same and the format still needs to be worked on.” But it's fun and the spectators are treated to a great show. Lara Gut-Behrami, on the other hand, doubts whether such a competition can be held in the long term: “I don’t think that’s the future of the World Cup.” In addition, according to the Swiss, the risk of injury in such an event is significantly higher.

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Shiffrin manager rages: “Ridiculous”

The parallel giant slalom in Sestriere was spectacular, exciting and unpredictable, but caused great dissatisfaction among some of those affected. Shiffrin manager Kilian Albrecht was the harshest in criticizing the newly founded discipline - and at the same time sharply attacked the FIS.

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