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The Austrian, after the stoic return to Lake Louise, admits to having felt negative signals from the physicist and is already thinking about the 2023 World Cup. The Swede, on the other hand, says enough not without controversy towards her federation. The summons of France, Switzerland and Germany for Kitzbuehel.
Tuesday 18 January 2022 7 minutes reading time
Nicole Schmidhofer tried, on the other hand she was talking about her goal of winning the pass for the Beijing Olympic Games just a few days after the terrible accident of 18 December 2020 in the first descent of Val d''Isère.
On the one hand, he made it, because the return to Lake Louise and then the decent performances in the super-g of Sankt Moritz confirmed that the super-g world champion in 2017 can still return to high levels, from 'other, however, "Nici" is forced to give up his Olympic dream. “I don't feel physically capable of competing like this for the rest of the season - the Austrian sprinter announced today, ending her 2021/22 year - It's been pretty tough in the last two to three weeks, there have been muscle problems and the period from November to today has cost a lot of effort.
As good as it was, mentally and physically it was complicated, so I have to admit to myself that I am not capable of doing good races now. My body is showing me that it's not all that easy ”. The focus has therefore already shifted to the world championships of Courchevel-Méribel 2023, where we certainly will not see Magdalena Fjaellstroem instead.
The Swedish slalomist, just 27 years old, has announced her retirement from competition; this year we saw her between Levi, Killington, Lienz and Zagreb, without qualifying for the 2nd heat. The total number of races in the World Cup is 64, with only one top ten obtained in the last race pre covid and injury, on February 16, 2020 in Kranjska Gora with the tenth place. "After 10 years for which to be grateful to so many people, now I feel only anger and disappointment for those who currently manage the Swedish federation - argued the Scandinavian specialist in her message in which she greets the white circus - It was frustrating to see so many talents give up in the last two years and now I am one of them too, also because Federsci has not provided me with any support after my last injury, without finally giving me the opportunity to train or compete in the European Cup or the World Cup. I hope something changes for future generations ”.
FOR CORTINA AND KITZ
In the meantime, a series of official announcements concerning the convocations for the next speed weekend have arrived between Cortina, where the women will compete on Saturday a downhill and Sunday the super-g on the Olympia delle Tofane, and Kitzbuehel with the two men's descents on the Streif (then it will close on Sunday with the slalom on the Ganslern).
France arrives in the Dolomites on the strength of a beautiful rebirth in the speed sector: even the last super-g of Altenmarkt-Zauchensee was extremely positive, with Tessa Worley and Laura Gauche paired in fifth position. The bi world champion leads the group of 7 called up for the Ampezzo races, on the list we also find Romane Miradoli, Tiffany Gauthier, Camille Cerutti, Esther Paslier and Anouck Errard. Seven men also for the Kitz descents, with Johan Clarey together with Matthieu Bailet, Nils Allegre, Maxence Muzaton, Blaise Giezendanner, Nicolas Raffort and Roy Piccard. In slalom, however, there will be only a trio with Clément Noel, Alexis Pinturault and another athlete selected after the European Cup slalom scheduled on home snow, Thursday and Friday in Vaujany.
Switzerland, on the other hand, will bring 11 sprinters to the Tyrolean temple: together with Beat Feuz, who scored a double on the Streif in 2021, and Marco Odermatt, here are Niels Hintermann, Stefan Rogentin, Urs Kryenbuehl, Gilles Roulin, Yannick Chabloz, Ralph Weber , Lars Roesti (who scored twice in the European Cup in the two Tarvisio runs), Nils Mani and Alexis Monney, with internal selection in tests.
Ramon Zenhaeusern, Daniel Yule (2nd in the specialty ranking after the podium in Wengen), Loic Meillard, Luca Aerni, Tanguy Nef, Marc Rochat, Sandro Simonet, Reto Schmidiger and a ninth athlete from to define.
Germany, in turn, will field 5 downhill athletes with a great desire for redemption after the difficult weekend in Wengen: at the gate Romed Baumann, Josef Ferstl, Andreas Sander, Simon Jocher and Dominik Schwaiger. Six slalomists called up, with Linus Strasser, Alexander Schmid, Anton Tremmel, David Ketterer, Fabian Himmelsbach and Julian Rauchfuss.
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