Alpine World Cup in Austria
Despite failures: Ski association remains with a medal destination for World Cup
So far, winter has not been running according to the taste of the German ski racers. Nevertheless, two medals should jump out at the World Cup. The sports director is reminiscent of a very special event.
Despite some failures and a previously mew season, Germany’s ski team does not move away from the medal destination at the World Cup in Austria. At least two precious metal should jump out in the eleven competitions in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. “I assume that the coaches and the athletes are aware of the situation of what we have for an initial situation, but also see their chance in the starting situation,” said sports director Wolfgang Maier before the start of the World Cup (4 to 16. February). “That must be the spirit of this team.”
It is reminiscent of 2021, when his team only reached three podium places this winter before going to the World Cup. At the highlight of the season in Cortina d’Ampezzo, four medals surprisingly jumped out. “At that time we had a similar starting situation,” he recalled. “We were nowhere a medal candidate, especially not a mandatory medal candidate. We are not this time. But what we had done was that we could somehow swear the team.”
Start with a parallel man event
This is exactly what should succeed again this time. At the start of the World Cup on Tuesday (3:15 p.m./ARD and Eurosport), the team parallel event is pending, a race in which the German team was often successful in recent years, including a silver medalist at Olympia 2022.
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Source: Stern
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