With her spare wardrobe, there was no need for a hairdryer for Brignone, although maybe that was the tiny margin the Italian was missing.
“Today I feel like I didn’t do my best. The other times I was always 100 per cent and I did what I had to do, so I was really happy with myself. Today, I don’t know, maybe I was missing something, missing a little thing, especially in the second run,” Brignone said. “I couldn’t attack as I wanted.”
Third place was a fourth World Cup GS podium finish in a row for the 33-year-old, something she has never previously achieved. A sign of her remarkable consistency is that her other podium finish in Kranjska Gora came way back in 2012.
Vlhova has not been around quite as long as Brignone but the big name Slovakian, who had an army of fans cheering her every turn, did look primed for World Cup win number 31. Last out the gate in the second run however, she struggled on the soft, rutted lower section with the 18th fastest second run time dropping her off the podium.
