It was a magical day for Italian skiing, with an incredible double in downhill in the final two races of the season at the Lillehammer finals, on the Olympia slope in nearby Kvitfjell. The winners were Dominik Paris of South Tyrol and Laura Pirovano of Trentino . But that's not all, as Lolli Pirovano —her third career victory after the two in Val di Fassa and a past that seemed cursed by bad luck, with 11 top-five finishes but never a podium—also won the downhill cup . She is the heir to Sofia Goggia, who won four but who this season, beyond her splendid Olympic bronze medal, seems to have lost her way in this discipline, while instead she shines in the super-G.
Paris, on the other hand—his 25th career win and seventh on this Norwegian snow he clearly loves—also scored his twentieth downhill victory, surpassing Swiss Peter Mueller. This means Domme enters the history books as the second-best freestyle skier of all time: ahead of him, with 25 victories, is only the legendary Austrian Franz Klammer.
(Unioneonline)