Daniel Yule likes the spotlight appearances. The carpet white instead of red, steep down instead of flat, nothing noble on the feet, but ski boots. This late evening stage in Madonna di Campiglio with the illuminated slope, with tens of thousands of frenetic fans in this ski arena. Yule: made for the big platform. That was how it was a year ago. That was how it was this Wednesday.
In the first run the Valais was the fastest, in the second he was not distracted by anything, not by the flashing tube through which the drivers have to walk to get to the start house, not by the deafening mood or by Henrik Kristoffersen, the Norwegian that challenged him the most in this second slalom of the year. 15 hundredths ahead in the finish, World Cup victory number 2 for Yule. “That is incredible,” said the Valaisian on the television camera, “I am very, very, very satisfied. Above all, that I came back after the disappointment in Zagreb. »He was 27 there on Sunday, the 26-year-old didn’t like the sluggish and rather flat slope, which also changed his season preparation in a ski hall in France nothing in which he worked on his weaknesses in flat terrain.
Race with Zen houses
How different the stage in Trentino was, how different was his emotional state. Down below Yule clapped one of the big guys: Alberto Tomba, started seven times in Madonna di Campiglio, never worse than second. Yule’s yield on the spectacle slope is not quite as impressive, but he has been part of an exclusive circle since Wednesday. Two victories in a slalom, that was achieved by just three Swiss in the 53-year history of the World Cup: Didier Plaschy, Pirmin Zurbriggen and Dumeng Giovanoli, the Graubünden who won the classics in Wengen and Kitzbühel in 1968 in the second World Cup season , And so now Yule belongs to this circle, to which only those who have long since resigned belonged.
He had a race with Ramon Zenhaeuser, he said: So who would be the first to achieve his second victory. He was it. Zenhaeuser, in Zagreb second only seven hundredths past the triumph, was eliminated for the second time this winter. Starting sixth in the first round, he threaded in the upper part after a lightning-fast journey.
Best placement for Nef
So was a second best Swiss who had never made it into the top 10. The 23-year-old from Geneva Tanguy Nef finished sixth because he implemented his tactics to perfection. Attack fully without making a mistake. His coaches say that you never really know what you can get from him. On Wednesday they got 6th place from him, Yule’s victory, 12th place from Sandro Simonet and 19th place by Marc Rochat and Loïc Meillard. There is a slalom generation at the start that seems capable of something completely different than two victories by a single athlete.
Madonna di Campiglio (ITA). Men’s World Cup Slalom: 1. Daniel Yule (SUI) 1: 35.60. 2. Henrik Kristoffersen (NOR) 0.15 back. 3. Clement Noël (FRA) 0.25. 4. Sebastian Foss-Solevaag (NOR) 0.30. 5. Alexis Pinturault (FRA) 0.60. 6. Tanguy Nef (SUI) 0.85. 7. Stefan Hadalin (SLO) and Dave Ryding (GBR), 1.34 each. 9. Manfred Mölgg (ITA) 1.39. 10. Johannes Strolz (AUT) 1.40. Further: 12. Sandro Simonet (SUI) 1.46. 15. Marco Schwarz (AUT) 1.68. 19. Marc Rochat (SUI) and Loïc Meillard (SUI), each 1.87. 27. Stefano Gross (ITA) 2.60. – 28 of the 30 finalists classified. – Eliminated: Ramon Zenhaeuser (SUI), Andre Myhrer (SWE).
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