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And with his rivals all starting race 2 on the outside of the field of 19
Poret needed no more encouragement, sweeping to victory to secure his
fourth world title and the GP title, with Alberto Monti and Mickael Poret
completing the podium.
His rivals gave it their best shot to keep the title alive, Armillas and
Schjetlein coming through the pack to finish fourth and fifth, Reiterer in
seventh. But with just two races to go and with 50 points on offer, Poret’s
52 point advantage is unassailable.
For Poret the turnaround from despondency and self-doubt in Shanghai
where he only managed third overall behind Reiterer and Armillas and
saw his lead reduced was remarkable or as Armillas put it ‘we handed him
that on a plate’!
In Ski Ladies there really has only ever going to be one champion and that
is Emma-Nellie Ortendahl. The 18-year-old from Alvangen in Sweden
won all four races and both GP titles in China by a country mile and has
now won seven of the eight races this season. And with two races to go
she needs a mere four points and that she can do going backwards.
Behind her the race to be best of the rest is between Jennifer Menard,
Estelle Poret and Beatriz Curtinhal. Curtinhal andMenard taking second
and third spots in Shanghai and Liuzhou, Poret’s title chances taking a hit
after crashing in Shanghai and not making either podium.
New boy Marcus
Jorgensen arrived leading
the title race, broke in race
1 didn’t start race 2 and
went home to Denmark.
James Bushell is the only challenger
with an outside chance of
overhauling the 36 point deficit.
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