In Kitzbühel they are proud of their gansmen slope, which is sometimes incorrectly considered a bit of a product for the streak next door. The slalom slope sometimes looks like a small, common brother of the powerful, indomitable downhill route, Linus Straßer once shaped the term “Schweinsberg”. Far from the microphones, you can also hear far fewer youth -free insults in some places. It is a minute struggle for survival via waves and transitions that lead athletes into the border area – only: Currently you could also have the best slalom drivers in the world driven 300 meters next door via the waves from the children’s country of the ski school, it would probably be interesting.
As rarely before, the discipline deals with the confusingly large number of gate stalls, where numerous interesting characters drive for victories. This is good for the call of the goose learning slope: the perhaps more exciting, certainly more high -class race took place in Kitzbühel on Sunday with the little brother of the streak, in the slalom that is no longer so secret.
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There are numerous reasons for this development in the Ski World Cup. One can see, among other things, that the majority of young athletes have focused more on the technical disciplines in the offspring. This is cheaper for the ski associations because the training is easier to implement and safer for the children. And because the adults are often seriously injured in the speed disciplines-too often-there was a kind of vacuum: a large number of potential victory drivers in departure and Super-G is in hospital beds, visits rehabilitation clinics or looks from the target area To, it is different in the slower technology disciplines.
The density in the slalom has recently increased, you could see it again on Sunday. A little more than half a second separated the winner Clément Noël from Filip Zubzic to tenth place, so it works all the season. This sometimes leads to curious results, as in the case of Norwegians, who celebrated a triple victory in Wengen last week, while in Kitzbühel Henrik Kristoffersen, Atle Lie McGrath and the half -time Timon Haugan failed one after the other. Some, like Noël, seem to get along well with the competition: the Frenchman not only won his second Golden Gams in Kitzbühel after 2019, but also his fourth World Cup this season.
“If I was only satisfied, if I was on the podium, I would rarely be satisfied,” says Straßer
Others have their difficulties with the ongoing hundredths. The Norwegian Brazilian Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, for example, drove on the podium again in Kitzbühel, but the trouble was to look at afterwards: This time 19 hundredths of a second had been missing for the first World Cup victory since the comeback that the browns would have loved to get at the Copacabana of skiing. He will still be able to explain to the Brazilian public what a chamois is, which is also awarded in Kitzbühel in cup form in silver (to Alex Vinatzer from Italy) and bronze. And who would have loved to hold Straßer in her hands, who knows the Gams as a residing Kirchberger and therefore spoke on Thursday that she was a herd animal.
A golden gams have been at home at Straßer since last year, but for the time being alone. For another, nine hundredths of a second on browns were missing this time, so it is secured that Straßer is more of one of those drivers who are more involved in the crime thriller. “If I were only satisfied, if I was at the podium, I would rarely be satisfied,” said Straßer, which placements currently mean less than the fundamentally positive development on skis. The rail -like security from the pre -season continues to go a little, but the intervals at the top are low and are increasingly smaller. January has once again proven to be a street month that has increased “from racing” and feels much more comfortable on skis than in the previous year: “This is a process that you have to trust, then come again Podia and victories. “
The process next leads to one of his favorite slopes, the Planai in Schladming has never been insulted by anyone. The slalomtross enjoys the night race that is waiting on Tuesday, it is Austria’s second largest winter celebration to Kitzbühel. After that, a small but deserved break is waiting for the technicians after the intensive January: the men’s slalom competition will only take place on the final Sunday at the Ski World Championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in February. As it should be for a not even so hidden royal discipline.
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