“Not World Cup worthy”: Reactions to the Swiss time chaos

Because the timing in the Swiss ski resort went wrong and the FIS also made a calculation error , the official results were only available on Tuesday – 3 days after the race. The Austrian Association was also partly responsible for this, as they filed an appeal after the race on Saturday because Nicole Schmidhofer, who was still in fourth place at the time, was faster according to the television images.

In the end that turned out to be true. Schmidhofer was of course happy. “The relief is very great. That suits me perfectly. I’m super happy, now things can continue like this,” said the Styrian. She hadn't slept well the past few nights, because who likes to be “shitted about”. "No one. And especially not when it comes to a bullet. You never know what will happen. Of course I'm incredibly sorry for (Joana/note) Hählen, it would have been her first podium place, I would have been very happy for her too. It’s nothing personal.”

"I am at a loss for words." Joana Hählen Hählen, who fell back to fourth place in the corrected ranking, was naturally frustrated. The Swiss woman did not want to speak to the media, but in a Swiss-Ski press release she said: “I am at a loss for words. I'm very disappointed with how the whole thing went." It's understandable if the first podium finish of your career is gone after 4 hours.

Third place in the new ranking went to the Swiss Corinne Suter, but she wasn't really happy about it. “The back and forth was unworthy of a World Cup – this is a great shame for our sport,” she is quoted as saying in Schweizer Blick. The new ranking: 1. Sofia Goggia (ITA) 1:29.77 2. Nicole Schmidhofer (AUT) + 0.52 3. Corinne Suter (SUI) + 0.59 4. Joana Hählen (SUI) + 0.61 5. Stephanie Venier (AUT) + 0.68 6. Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) + 0.71 The old ranking: 1. Sofia Goggia (ITA) 1:29.77 2. Joana Hählen (SUI) +0.36 3. Lara Gut-Behrami (SUI) +0.45 4. Nicole Schmidhofer (AUT) +0.52 5. Corinne Suter (SUI) +0.59 6. Stephanie Venier (AUT) +0.68

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“Not World Cup worthy”: Reactions to the Swiss time chaos

Something like this has probably never happened before: the women's downhill took place in Crans-Montana on Saturday, and three days later the rankings changed significantly again. The reactions from the runners were understandably mixed.

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