Ski Alpin: Holdener wins overall standings in the combined World Cup

World champion Wendy Holdener has won the small crystal ball in the alpine combination for the second time after 2016. The Swiss rider took fourth place in her home World Cup at Crans Montana to maintain her lead in the overall standings. Federica Brignone (Italy) won the World Cup for the eighth time. Best German was Patrizia Dorsch (Schellenberg) on the 19th century. Place.

The fact that a crystal ball was awarded in the traditional alpine duel after only two competitions met with widespread criticism:”That’s a bit of a joke,”said ARD expert Maria Höfl-Riesch, the combined Olympic champion of 2010 and 2014.

On Saturday, defending champion Tina Weirather from Liechtenstein took first place in the Super G class with her ninth World Cup victory in the absence of Olympic champion Ester Ledecka:”The ball would be very important to me. It’s the biggest thing to win in our sport,”she said. Cod was 14 years old. best Germans.

Ledecka (Czech Republic) abandoned the race to take part in the parallel giant slalom of female snowboarders in Kayseri/Turkey, where she finished second. Viktoria Rebensburg (Kreuth) was also not at the start, she prepares herself in Ofterschwang for the giant slalom there on Friday. The overall World Cup leaders Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn (both USA) were also missing in the Valais.