From a red-white-red perspective, Daniel Hemetsberger starts the race with number five, followed by Vincent Kriechmayr with starting number seven and Matthias Mayer with start number nine. Max Franz completes the ÖSV quartet, he was only awarded the fourth and last starting place in Austria on Saturday – the OÖN have reported.
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Final training canceled “for safety reasons”.
The cancellation of the final training session in Yanqing had previously caused great dissatisfaction among the athletes. Only three runners, Matthias Mayer, the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and the South Tyrolean Christof Innerhofer, had gone over the course for the third test run when it was canceled due to strong winds. The athletes wanted to continue training, but the jury only allowed one inspection.
The decision was made “for safety reasons,” it said, with no window seen in the weather forecast for the day for a postponement. The atmosphere at the start was heated, said World Champion Vincent Kriechmayr at the finish. Of course, everyone would have liked to have had a third run on the new route in order to be prepared for the race.
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More medal hopes for Austria
Snowboarder Anna Gasser is also fighting for medals in the slopestyle final (2.30 a.m. CET) and Wolfgang Kindl, who is second after two runs in tobogganing (12.30 p.m. and 2.15 p.m. CET). Austria’s ski jumpers are considered promising outsiders in the decision on the normal hill (12:00 p.m. CET). Stefan Kraft, who regained his strength in training, has the best chance of winning a medal. In addition to the world champion, Manuel Fettner, Daniel Huber and Jan Hörl will also compete.
In the men’s downhill, Mayer could write skiing history in several respects with his third Olympic gold. With Kriechmayr, Austria also provides the reigning world champion.
Source: Nachrichten
