The 29-year-old twisted it in the air at more than 100 km/h, Hütter landed across and hit her body and head hard.
The Super-G winner from Garmisch slid down the entire finish slope and initially lay motionless. The rescue chain worked perfectly. After Hütter regained consciousness, she left the stadium with a bleeding nose, but on her own two feet. Concussion was suspected.
Stephanie Venier, who secured a starting place in the World Cup final in fifth place, noticed Hütter’s accident at the start. “Of course that’s a bit bad. You can only try to hide it in the race. I’m so glad that apparently not too much happened,” said the Tyrolean, who had achieved her best result in more than two years. “It’s the best result of my career,” emphasized Venier, who was vice world champion in St. Moritz in 2017.
The Swiss Priska Nufer, who was not nominated for the Olympic Games, celebrated her debut victory in her 144th World Cup race. By the way, ahead of Ester Ledecka (Cze), who won on Saturday. Because Petra Vlhova was 16th, the Slovak and Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) lead ex aequo in the overall World Cup with eight races to go. Both have 1026 points.
Double winner Kristoffersen
Garmisch was worth a trip for Henrik Kristoffersen. The Norwegian won both men’s slaloms. Yesterday he benefited from the failures of the top 3 after the first round, Loic Meillard, Ramon Zenhäusler (both Sui) and Johannes Strolz. “Too bad for them, racing is tough,” said Kristoffersen. “The second run wasn’t for boys, it was for men.”
Strolz, who was fourth behind Manuel Feller (3rd) on Saturday, threw roses at the doubles winner. “Technically, Henrik is an incredibly strong skier and lightning fast on such coarse-grained snow.” Marco Schwarz finished fifth yesterday.
Source: Nachrichten
