His Daughter towards dream season – Gothenburg Post

Four races remain until childhood dream come true. But the slalom Cup is far from settled, says Frida his daughter.

– It would be fantastic, but I can not focus on it yet, she says.

Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, center, won two straight races in Flachau recently. She and Šárka Strachová, to the left, are the biggest threats to Frida His Daughter in the slalom Cup. Stock Photography. Pier Marco Tacca / AP / TT

Frida his daughter. Stock Photography. Pier Marco Tacca / AP / TT

Facts

Facts: remaining slalom competitions

February 15: Crans Montana, Switzerland.

February 23: Stockholm, parallel competition that gives World Cup points.

March 6: Jasna, Slovakia.

March 19: St. Moritz, Switzerland, World Cup finish.

Facts: Swedish cup winner

the last time a Swedish win one of the cups in the alpine World Cup was in 2012, when André Myhrer won the slalom Cup.

a total of seven Swedes won any of cups since the World Cup started:

Ingemar Stenmark: 19 titles (3 in the overall World Cup, eight slalom, 8 giant slalom).

Anja Paerson: 7 (2 total, three giant slalom, 1 slalom 1 combination).

Pernilla Wiberg: 4 (1 total, 1 slalom, 2 combination).

Thomas Fogdö, André Myhrer, Ylva Nowén and Stig Strand: respective victory in the slalom Cup .

Source: International Ski Federation.

The American star Mikaela Shiffrin makes a comeback Crans Montana on Monday. The fight for the slalom Cup teach 20-year-old, who missed five races because of a knee injury, however, not be able to interfere in anymore. Instead, the three veterans, Frida his daughter in the head, which is preparing for the final sprint of the World Cup season.

After the Swiss competition remains only parallel slalom in Stockholm and slalom in the Slovak Jasna before it is time for the World Cup Finals in St. Moritz . A total of four races where everything is at stake.

– dream is to get to win the slalom cup, it has dreamed of since you were small, I dreamed about it every year, says Frida his daughter. – There is much left. But yes, I have embedded pretty good for myself. I go well and know that I have a good chance.

Six podiums

It’s been a strange season for the ladies slalom. Lack of snow and degrees have made half of the races so far this winter been held elsewhere than planned, for example, Monday’s race in Crans Montana inserted in place of the set slalom in Maribor.

Frida His daughter has been the more consistent, with programs consistent podium finishes in six of seven races, including the win in Lienz just before New Year. After the podium in Åre in mid-December, she took over the red wire vest and a month she may be the last Swedish rider who won one of the alpine cups.

“Up the evidence “

But its lead is fragile.

in the absence Mikaela Shiffrins Swedish has instead been contending with Slovakian Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, which is just 85 points behind in the Cup. Further little after Shadow tjeckiskan Šárka Strachová.

– That’s three of us who fight for the Cup. But there are four races left and I have to take one at a time. You can not think about the Cup, but I still have to go well every race, says his daughter. – While it is fun to Mikaela come back, she has been missing and is probably an icon of the sport. So now is the moment of truth for us.