Thus was the ending in the Italian ground is a purely anti-climatic.
Kristoffersen was deuce after the first place and had to 0.14 of a second to take in at the leading Hirscher. The Norwegian pressure on the top of the trail, but was too eager and drove out in the third port.
It was a clearly disappointed Kristoffersen who had to realize that his beautiful series of special stage podiums in the slalom stopped Saturday. According to the NRK would Kristoffersen have equaled the Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark with twelve consecutive special stage podiums in slalom in the world cup if he had succeeded in Madonna.
Just after the Kristoffersens bom led Hirscher same fate. The austrian managed also to the third port before it was stop. He completed the race and finished in 26.-space, 18,69 seconds behind the winner.
To the top went sveitseren Daniel Yule, who ran up three places in the finaleomgangen. Closest to him came the austrians, Marco Schwarz (+0,34) and Michael Matte (+0,50).
(NTB)
Riiber took his fourth consecutive world cup competition
