Very little green, obviously better than a red.
Actually shocked by Schild, or the Schilds, as Marlies won and younger sister Bernadette was 3rd.
Holdener was 9th, more or less where I expected her, surprise was Schild, I believed her a step behind all this yougsters but no, she's still got it.
Anyway Austria was globally good with the Schild sisters 1st and 3rd, Zettel 4th, Kirchgasser 5th, Thalmann 7th (career best) and 2nd best time in run2, Daum 10th and Hosp 13th.
My explanation to this, beside the fact that they all are actually good, is that the snow was "strange", it got rotten very fast forming big grains, and deep trails appeared nearby the base of the posts. Austrians usually are the best in such conditions.
As said Thalmann was good, and is in a great period of confidence, and that's great since she used to get DNFs too often.
Eklund was 11th, she is very precise not aggressive, in fact there's consistency in her results very few DNFs, but on the other hand she's still missing a top result -she's got time for that. Yesterday I think she chocked in run 2, was 4th after the first leg and I believe she's never been placed like that before.
Duerr and Strachova were lethargic their movements were slow, I'll add at this club also Maze and, surprise surprise... Shiffrin 12th with two bad runs, no errors just lack of her usual brillancy.
Unimpressive Swenn-Larsson 15th with two average runs, better from Feierabend 19th but with a higher bib.
Big disappointment was Pietilae-Holmner. Actually her run was too short to be commented, but irony she went long exiting a gate with a very close angle and missed the following gate (my opinion: on a snow with more grip she'll managed to stay in), Poutiainen got difficulties at the same gate but somehow she made the turn on only one ski, the internal one moreover, stayed in but with a big loss of time. Other mistakes came in the second and she eventually went off. Shame.
Courchevel's slope is a bit lively: there are humps which can play bad trick depending on the course setting, inclinations changes here and there (flat-steep-steeper etc...), a long flat section before the finish line. The snow was bad
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