Stephen Gross: "I want to win in Schladming"

you have defined the surprise of the year, you expected a season so brilliant?

No I did not expect. At the beginning of the season I left with the bib 40 finish in the top five with three podiums in the world I would not have ever imagined. I expected a good season because I was already skiing well last year, but I did not have the consistency and continuity that I managed to get this year.

Like you said, were leaving early in the season with a pectoral high end of the season while you were part of the very first band. What took you in?

tripped awareness of being able to stay up front with the best in the world. Despite leave with the number 40, I did seven races right now very good and I could very quickly improve the breast even doing the last three races starting in the first subgroup.

During the season you've got three podiums, including one in Schladming. What was on the podium in the most anticipated race of the year? That

of Schladming is the track that best represents me and who I always liked the most since as a baby when I watched the races on TV. It's always been my dream to win in Schladming. Unfortunately this year for 22 cents I did not, the World Cup next year we will return there because the World Cup and I'll try again because both the slope, and for grooming, and for the public, & rsquo ; Austria at the moment is far ahead of us resp.

All three times you stood on the podium, the race was won by Marcel Hirscher. It is so unbeatable?

I think no one is unbeatable. Surely he skied very strong throughout the season, has won the World Cup with only two disciplines, made two apiece in both giant slalom in Adelboden and Bansko. But I think with two runs made in a certain way, as I have unfortunately not managed to do this year, they are all beatable. In

slalom in Kranjska Gora you came fourth. A good result, but at the end of the race you were angry. Why this reaction?

I was quite upset because the last week of training I was skiing very strong. I had never skied in my life as well. I started with the first numbers, but I could not bring race into the kind of feeling I had in training and I was very upset, even though in the second race I managed to recover a bit. ' As I said before, doing well, one leg is not enough. We must make them both good to be ahead.

your plans for this summer

rest a bit 'because it is from June last year that are on skis. A good rest and a good holiday I will surely do you good. Then I will return to training with great conviction: this season has gone well, but we do not stop there. Next year's World Cup to be played and I will train to try to win many races.