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With the fourth consecutive World Cup in descent, the Swiss champion has equaled "Kaiser Franz" capable of the same poker in series from 1975 to 1978 (and then added a fifth in 1983). His emotions after the award ceremony in Lenzerheide.
Wednesday 17 March 2021 5 minutes reading time
A day in which he enters directly into the history books of skiing, he who in the last four seasons has never finished out of the top ten and, precisely from 2018 to this 2021, has always brought home the crystal ball in "his" discipline .
The fourth consecutive downhill World Cup means legend: today in Lenzerheide, Beat Feuz has in fact equaled in terms of consecutive series in the queen specialty a certain Franz Klammer, who triumphed from 1975 to 1978, only to conquer the fifth globe in 1983. And then, if in 2021/22 the very Swiss champion goes on the hunt for his first Olympic title, the goal can only be to reach “Kaiser Franz” even at an absolute level.
The 34-year-old from the Canton of Bern has collected 486 points in just seven races, with five podiums and another taboo overthrown: after four second places, in fact, Beat also won for the first time on the "Streif", in fact he even scored twice in Kitzbuehel winning both descents into the temple. In the end, Matthias Mayer concluded behind Feuz, 68 points away but with no regrets after today's cancellation ("I tried to beat him all season, but Beat has always been slightly better and he deserves this trophy", he said with great sportsmanship the Carinthian at Kronen Zeitung), and Dominik Paris who finished at -148, ahead of Clarey (fourth) and Kriechmayr (fifth), while Christof Innerhofer finished 12th with 141 points to the active.
"Compared to the fourth crystal ball downhill, in purely sporting terms, for me there is nothing more precious - confessed Feuz to the" Blick "this morning - I say this because to get to the goal, you must always be at the highest level for a whole season. Before winning my first cup, considering my past in terms of injuries, I never thought I'd be able to do it just once ”.
After competing against Marcel Hirscher, up to the penultimate match of the Schladming finals, for the absolute World Cup in the 2011/12 season (the first of the incredible series of eight of the Salzburg champion), the Rossocross ace had to live together with an inflammation in the left knee due to which he skipped the entire following year, even coming to think of the risk of an amputation. Then the patient, enormous work, step by step, until the rebirth began with the bronze downhill at the World Championships in Beaver Creek 2015, passing through the return to victory in the World Cup, more than 4 years since the last time, in Sankt Moritz in 2016, in the same place where in February 2017 he signed his most important success, the world champion gold at home.
If there is a champion who deserved all this, it is Beat Feuz.
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