With all the stories of this sport, most myths surround the discipline descent. In Austria, where skiing is the most important minor matter in the world, you can see this every year on the foray exit in Kitzbühel. And this year there should be a lookup, in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, at the World Cup. In the probably largest ski stadium that has ever existed, every angle was occupied, even more red and white-red flags fluttered through the air on the days before. Everything was prepared for an Austrian gold day at the home World Cup-but then a young Swiss came and gave the party crasher.
The 23-year-old Franjo von Allmen showed a historical race at the Ski World Cup, after which he has been noted in statistics since 1989 as the youngest departure world champion. The German crest Hansjörg Tauscher, who at the time at the tender age of 21 in Vail, Colorado, continued to hold the record. Allmen only had 25 appearances in the World Cup before this World Cup, for the Swiss it is the second season in the top league of ski racing. “I went full risk,” Allmen told ORF later, and: “We will celebrate to tip over.”
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The dramaturgy of this downhill race in front of more than 20,000 spectators in the stadium and on the edge of the route was essentially limited to starting numbers 1 to 13. Allmen teammate Alexis Monney, start number 8, put a new record from everyone else. And it didn’t take long before the best – but still struck – Austrian departure Vincent Kriechmayr opened this time. The 33-year-old shot through the technically demanding course-with every displayed in the top, a murmur penetrated by screaming through the stadium. And then when he crossed the finish line, the beer cups flew in the ranks. Is that enough for gold?
Three minutes to Kriechmayr, the trained carpenter crashed from the canton of Bern, not completely clean, not completely clean, twice his skis. Can this man succeed at the World Cup at the World Cup? Allmen chose a very direct line – and it was so fast that it made up for his small mistakes. At the finish line, the green one shone, 24 hundredths of a second in front of Kriechmayr. A time that his team -mate Marco Odermatt could not undercut; The Super-G world champion became fifth. Bronze won Monney, Romed Baumann and Simon Jocher landed in ranks 19 and 24, Luis Vogt, who started in the Super-G despite his spectacular fall.
This time the cameras and headlights were aimed at a Swiss who is still not very illuminated. Anyone who meets him meets a man with massive thighs and pointed beseed smiles. He looked almost a little shy a few days ago when he was sitting in front of the group of reporters in the Swiss house. He is “a happy, carefree guy, he takes it as it comes,” says his sister about him. Yes – that is also part of his story – that was not always the case.
The Allmens have a family tragedy behind them. In 2019, Franjo was 17 years old, his father died surprisingly. The mother, the daughter and the two brothers not only had to process his death, they also threatened to slip into financial ruin, so dramatic it was at the time. “Back then, the continuation of my racing driver career was on the brink,” said Allmen once the Swiss View told. The teenager was about to end the ski career before she really started. But then everything turned out differently.
Inspired by the call of confidants, Franjo van Allmen started a crowdfunding project
Inspired by the call of confidants, Franjo von Allmen started a crowdfunding project, he collected donations from patrons to finance the upcoming ski winter. This plan opened because after this season he was already doing the jump into the Swiss Ski district. From then on it went uphill.
Five years later, this man is said to be enormous strength. In addition, he gave an idea of his golden trip in Saalbach on Sunday, he succeeds in accelerating all the more to develop from weaknesses. His teammates say to be internal master of snoring about the SkiProfi from the municipality of Boltigen. Allmen would never deny that, on the contrary. He sees it as an advantage because he mostly resides in a single room.
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