Norwegian Alexander Aamodt Kilde this Saturday, he won the downhill of the Alpine Skiing World Cup organized in the American resort of Aspen (Colorado), where he mathematically secured the crystal ball of the discipline, repeating the success of last season ; the same day that the American super-champion Mikaela Shiffrin secured, also mathematically, her fifth final victory in the regularity competition.

Kilde, 30, and boyfriend of Shiffrin, three years her junior, claimed his twenty-first World Cup victory, the eighth of the season, by running the 2,750-metre ‘Ruthie’s run’ track, starting at 3,246 meters above sea level and a drop of 762, in a winning time of one minute, 31 seconds and sixty hundredths, 61 less than the Canadian James Crawford and with an advantage of 63 over the Swiss Marco Odermatt, exceptional leader of the general regularity competition; who finished third on Saturday and is one step away from revalidating the title.

The Norwegian won his eleventh victory in a downhill, the sixth of this season; and repeated the final victory in the World Cup of the discipline; the same day that Shiffrin -with whom he forms the most famous couple in alpine skiing in recent years-, mathematically obtained his fifth great crystal ball, finishing fifth in the relegation of Kitfjell (Norway). Where, in front of her fans, she won her first World Cup victory over Kajsa Vickhoff Lie and where, when she finished second, the Italian Sophie Goggia he won his fourth Globe of the modality.

Kilde has become a clear creditor of the crystal ball of the queen discipline, adding this Saturday to the victories he had won this course in the descents of Lake Louise (Canada), Beaver Creek (Canada), Val Gardena (Italy), Wengen (Switzerland) and Kitzbühel (Austria). the austrian Vincent Kriechmayrthe only one who, before the race, could still aspire to snatch the Crystal Globe from the Nordic champion – winner of the World Cup overall three seasons ago – finished fourth, ahead of Frenchman Johan Clarey, another legend of the king sport of Winter, who finished fifth in Aspen at 42.

After his victory this Saturday, Kilde has 720 points in the discipline classification, 206 more than Kriechmayr: a totally impassable gap, while there is only one relegation test left, that of the Soldeu final, in Andorra. odermatt He maintained his lead in the overall standings, which he could only regain from him following a whole debacle from Swiss star Kilde himself. With six races to go in the competition, the new star of Swiss sport leads the World Cup with 1,526 points, 346 more than Kilde; while another Norwegian, Henrik Kristoffersen -who two weeks ago was proclaimed slalom world champion in Courchevel (France)-, is third in the main race, 652 points behind Odermatt; and he no longer has a chance of getting the big crystal ball.