Because only three medals are normally awarded at the Olympic Games, there are naturally a lot of long faces. “Only precious metal counts, everyone wants it,” said double world champion Vincent Kriechmayr before leaving for China. Yesterday the co-favorite finished the Super-G in a good fifth place, the 30-year-old Gramastettner was 34 hundredths short of bronze. The wait for his first Olympic medal goes into overtime.
“I felt very good, all in all I conceded it down. But I wouldn’t have found the almost eight tenths on the Mothl (Matthias Mayer, note)” admitted Kriechmayr, who heartily congratulated his friend and Head stable colleague: “Absolutely deserved, that’s a tremendous achievement.” Mayer also had words of praise ready for Kriechmayr: “We are an insanely great squad. When the climate is right, it spurs you on. It’s a very good working relationship with the Vinc, we always exchange ideas.”
From time to time, communication also works across national borders. As the “Blick” reported, Swiss Ski was not really prepared for Beat Feuz’s downhill triumph. The Confederates were left stranded, the Austrians helped out with a few cans of beer.
The (manageable) alcohol consumption was of course no excuse for the disappointing performance of the Swiss in the Super-G with ranks 14 (Stefan Rogentin) and 16 (Gino Caviezel).
The medal contenders Feuz and Marco Odermatt, who had won the Super-Gs in Beaver Creek and Wengen this season, drove into the “garage”. It was not meant to be.
Source: Nachrichten
