An exceptional Federica Brignone brushes the Olympia delle Tofane in Cortina d'Ampezzo and once again brings Italy triumph on the slope that in February 2026 will host the women's alpine ski races at the next Winter Games. On the heels of Sofia Goggia's success and her own third place in the downhill, in fact, yesterday the "Tiger" from Valle d'Aosta dominated operations in the fourth World Cup Super-G of the season to go on to take by storm the 31st victory of her career (the first ever in Cortina) at the highest circuit level (the 11th in this specialty) as well as the fourth of her year after the two conquered in giant slalom between Sölden and Semmering and the one obtained in downhill in Sankt Anton am Arlberg (all three in Austria). The Azzurra, who climbed with this result to 75 podiums (six seasonal) in the World Cup (including as many as 22 in Super-G), made the difference in every part of the race on the Dolomite snow to file her own test with an extraordinary 1:21.64, a chrono unattainable for the two Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami (second with +0.58) and Corinne Suter (third with +1.08). Good performance also for Elena Curtoni (+1.11), fourth and out of the top-3 by only three hundredths. Important stretching also in terms of the overall ranking, which currently still sees Brignone at the top with 639 points ahead of Switzerland's Camille Rast (533), Sweden's Sara Hector (507) and the aforementioned Gut-Behrami (504). The latter herself leads the specialty ranking with a haul of 285 but the Italian is right behind her with 250.
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