Skiing: Grange filer leaves a crystal globe slalom

Jean-Baptiste Grange has left spinning a few yards Saturday a crystal globe at the World Cup slalom in Alpine skiing, he ripped off the Italian Manfred Mölgg at the last race of the season. The French, winner of three slaloms this winter, has committed a big fault in the bottom of the second run and finished at the 16th place of the test Bormio, in the finals of the World Cup in Italy. Mölgg, sixth in Bormio, took 21 points behind Grange he counted on before the last event, won by Austrian Reinfried Herbst. "It's a big disappointment," lamented the skier from Killington, aged 23, returned to his best form after a difficult month of February. "I had beaten back. Today, I hung, I rocked in the second round and it's really hard to let the world to Mölgg four gates from the finish, whereas if I was in the bottom was sure that I had. " A place among the first two Saturday at Bormio has offered to Grange, which triumphed three times this season, a crystal globe slalom, none has won since French Sebastien Amiez in 1996. The last French winner of a globe World Cup Frederic Covili was in 2002 in giant slalom. ABSENCE OF INTERIOR Winner of his first slalom last week in Kranjska Gora, however Mölgg has enjoyed his coronation before his audience: "When I learned that (Grange) had pulled out, I knew that I could afford to ski at 80% not like crazy. It represents so much to win this trophy in my country. " Bib red leader on the shoulders, Grange had appeared to do the most difficult with the fourth time in a first round piégeuse, especially with his bib higher than its rivals on a snow marking the trail. The Mauriennais went down in the second round and his direct style so effective during his victories in Wengen and Kitzbühel in January, a few weeks after her first successful World Cup in Alta Badia in December. Even well ahead at the last intermediate Grange became tangled skis on misconduct of a few interior doors of the red line of arrival. "I wanted to send the speed to the end and then we saw that it was continuing to turn on the latter doors and I am taking on bottom lines and behind, I am taking on the inside" , "said French, whose guilt remains etched in his memory. "When I see the skis that come out and the door, which is four metres beside me, it was really very, very hard." HARD TO DIGEST "At the time, I can not turn the page, it's too hard," he continued. Grange, however, has not forgotten the achievements of its season with a victory in super-combined in Wengen and a fourth place in giant slalom in Bormio Friday. "It's very hard but it's going to go after," he said. "It's been a great season, the future opens before me, I made the podium in both disciplines, I am at the foot of the podium in giant. Now it is on that disappointment is enormous." Grange regretted the depletion related to a January exhausting and loadings due to his brilliant victories: "I have made mistakes in January because I needed a little experience to manage that. (...) The season was long, it was necessary to fight until the end and I was washed. " "It's a big season, I really spent a course mentally, I can play with the best, I can not crack even in very difficult circumstances and I am able to be as versatile and c That is really a good thing ", he was still pleased. "It was a painful experience for him today, but this can only make it stronger and more determined in the future," said his side one of his coaches Maurice Adrait. "It will take a bit of time to fully digest all this and in particular his new role as a leader in the French team, but it will be very strong next year." Julien Lizeroux, as regular as from the beginning of the season, had taken sixth place in the slalom in Bormio tied with Mölgg and sixth place in the rankings of specialty.