Alpine Skiingmarcel hirscher story
Olympic Team Austria
Exactly ten years ago, the Austrian ace won the first of his 67 victories in the maximum circuit. Beating Blardone and Raich ...
Friday 13 December 2019 5 minutes reading time
On that track he had already touched a medal a few months earlier, in his first world championship among senior when he missed 7 cents to take home at least a bronze in the giant slalom.
The feeling with the "Face de Bellevarde" was evident, but that Sunday in Val d 'Isere would be born star who would dominate for the next decade, it certainly was not predictable.
It's been exactly ten years since that December 13, 2009, the day when Marcel Hirscher won the first of his 67 wins in the giant slalom on the "Face" of the World Cup, which concluded the Critérium de la Première Neige which will be staged again in the coming hours.
Evidence of wide doors was the 'last of a trio that included a super combined (all''epoca was his name) and a super-g: the 20 year old Annaberg had placed second on Friday, behind Benni Raich , and 11th in the quick test, demonstrating that it was now ready for the summit even in three disciplines. Nell''anno and a half earlier, in fact, Hirscher had already taken two podiums in slalom and super combined in a pair, including the one in Val d 'Isere; She had never been on one of the three giant steps, though, so much so that in Austria already thought it would be "only" a specialist from rapid gates.
At the start of the 2009/2010 season, the Salzburg had placed 14th in Soelden and, the week before the races in Haute Savoie, just 23 minutes in the Beaver Creek giant (won by Carlo Janka, who will take home the crystal ball absolute); He is criticizing the presence always at his side daddy Ferdinand and c''era some doubts about the real possibilities of the new rising star of Austrian skiing.
All wiped out in a day of sunshine on a Face tough, tough, "bastard": Marcel has the number 11, as a sign of destiny that double first joined, and in the first round you take the risks necessary to conclude with the best time, just 5 cents ahead of Max Blardone with fellow Baumann and Schoerghofer team in third and fourth place, while the 'Italy can smile even for Moelgg Ploner fifth and sixth. The "first Hirscher" of calculations it was very few, and here in the second round will not be too many problems to attack again at all. Result: first triumph in the World Cup, making the emptiness of each opponent, with Blardone according to 77 cents and a Benni Raich comeback, but a third one "32 ahead of Moelgg and Svindal. In short, four samples behind that little boy that sure, everybody already knew well enough, but which will demonstrate a determination unusual in the post race. "I wanted this first success, but there is still a lot to work on."
Well, win four more times the giant in Val d' 'Isere, for a total of seven successes in France with a couple of slalom, his favorite track after the Chuenisbärgli Adelboden (9 wins) and the Gran Risa in Alta Badia ( 8 hurray), where giant has won 6 consecutive on track queen of the circus.
That, however, is another story to tell ...
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