Press Release
Issued by Snowsport GB
Sunday 2nd April
Chemmy Alcott (23, Hove/The British Land
Alpine Ski Team) maintained Britain's
excellent record of recent years at the French National Ski Champs today when
she won the international giant slalom, ahead of the best of France's female
technical skiers. Alcott also won yesterday's international FIS giant slalom on
the same slope in Villard de Lans. Scoring her best ever FIS points result
Chemmy was pleased to score a result she needed so late in the season, when the
pressure was on to make a good giant slalom result. She was quickest in both
runs yesterday and repeated that feat again today.
Yesterday she won by 14 hundredths of a
second over Spain's Carolina
Ruiz Castillo - a training partner of Chemmy's - and today her winning margin was
83 hundredths of a second over France's
Aurelie Santon.
"Yesterday it was real heavy rain,
real hardcore and I seem to excel in that. The girls were all saying I won
because the weather was like London,
but I do seem to do well when the weather is bad. It's a funny hill which looks
harder than it is. A lot of the girls seem to over-ski the pitch but I just let
the skis go. I just skied normally so I am really pleased to make my best ever
result. I have never skied a single figure FIS result." said Chemmy.
"The pressure was on but I felt really
relaxed after the British Championships. I should have been more tired and more
under pressure, but it's funny because I always feel more stressed at the
British. I should have felt more stressed here because it's my last race and I
needed a GS result, but there it is and I am delighted."
Ends
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