maribor ladies giant slalom second run 2017 thessa worley

In October, she announced her retirement after doing one more event, Saturday’s race in her home country. By winning the Giant Slalom in Lenzerheide last weekend, Tessa Worley joined Annemarie Moser-Prll (both 16) in second place on the womens list for most. The two-time Olympic champion hadn’t competed since March 2015 after taking last season off to consider her future. Maze walked over the line, threw her goggles, gloves and poles into the stands with thousands of cheering Slovenian fans. She then skied on at a leisurely pace and clicked out of her skis just before finishing. In what was likely her last race, former overall champion Tina Maze of Slovenia started her opening run in race style and was only 0.69 off Shiffrin’s time at the first split.īut 46 seconds into her run she stopped to hug her coach and boyfriend, Andrea Massi. “I was kind of on the edge there but it is the risk you have to take because the level is so high,” said Worley, whose victory made her the most successful French woman in the discipline, overtaking Carole Merle who had 10 wins in the 1980s and ‘90s. Defending overall champion Lara Gut of Switzerland was 0. That showed in her final run, in which she nearly slid off course but recovered with her left hand in the snow. Worley had the fastest second-run time to beat Sofia Goggia by 0.16 seconds as the Italian skier earned her seventh podium of the season. I have more confidence now and I can attack a little more.”

I do things a little faster, a little stronger,” Worley said. “I am feeling better again since last year. Worley extended her lead over Shiffrin to 85 points, with Gut 190 points back in third. She failed to win another race for three years, but has meanwhile become a strong favorite for the World Cup discipline title this season. Worley won the world GS title in 2013 but her career suffered a setback when she tore the ACL and damaged the meniscus in her right knee 10 months later.

Maribor ladies giant slalom second run 2017 thessa worley