Her eleventh place in the super-G will quickly be forgotten. But it could have been different had she not made so many mistakes in the technically demanding middle section of the course, where she lost her ideal ski line. "I could joke and say I was almost too fast in that section, so that threw me away." Despite everything she did learn something from the race: "It was more of lesson for me than a slip-up. The course was great, my feeling was also good. The snow was completely different from yesterday and I was happy to ski. However, it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to."

Ferk somewhat pleased
Maruša Ferk, who did not expect a lot from the race and is more focused on the combined and slalom events, finished 30th today: "We decided to compete today in order to become familiar with the terrain, to get to know the slope and see what awaits me. My task today was to ski a straight line, to ski well in all parts of the course. That's what we decided when we looked at the course. Of course, I did try to be faster. In a way I'm pleased because I skied well and enjoyed myself. I think it was a good investment for the days to come."

The new champion had no idea how fast she was
The title of Super-G World Champion surprisingly goes to Nicole Schmidhofer, who skied with a starting number 8 - just before Ilka Štuhec. The 27-year-old skier from Austria's Styria region still hasn't won a race in the Alpine World Cup. She skied the middle part of the course, the section where Štuhec had difficulties, flawlessly. But she did not have that feeling while skiing down the slope: "I didn't think I was that fast, but it turns out my skiing was flawless," said the Austrian champion, who seriously injured her knee one year ago while training in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

T. O.; translated by K. J.