Feller is reborn on the Gran Risa: "The most exciting race of my career". And Schwarz thinks of Campiglio

Two Austrians again on the podium in slalom, even if the victory between the narrow posts remains a curse for both. On 3Tre they will have another great opportunity (with "Manu" back in the 15).

Monday 21 December 2020 4 minutes reading time

They brought the Wunderteam back up front, when it seemed that after the first heat Michael Matt was the man destined to try to give the first success of the season to an Austrian national team in crisis. They did not succeed, but the day of Manuel Feller and Marco Schwarz can be considered super, respectively second and third in the Alta Badia slalom that opened the rapid gates season. The Tyrolean has touched the first victory of his career once again, he who with today's one is on the fifth podium without success, with four top 3 in slalom and in the last three occasions we are talking about second places a whisker from the triumph. In 2019 in Wengen and Soldeu behind Noel (with a gap of 8 and 18 cents), today again at 8 cents, but from Zenhaeusern. Still, the 28-year-old from Fieberbrunn, who started the season late to manage the back problems that re-emerged in the summer, is over the moon: "It's amazing how quickly everything can change - he told the press office. dell''OESV - Already in training I felt that I was doing very well in slalom, but after last season difficult and the first three races in giant without points, we start with little self-confidence ". Feller, who started with bib 26, closed the first heat 13th, but only 1 ”01 from Vinatzer, and then invented a great comeback that is also worth returning to the top 15 of the WCSL, already fundamental from a Campiglio perspective. “I was already very happy with the first heat, but in the second I managed to do almost everything perfectly. I would say this is the most exciting moment of my career ”. Sixth podium in the slalom of the World Cup, again without ever winning (but he succeeded in parallel and in combined), for Marco Schwarz who described it as “beautiful to get on the podium with Manu, even if my little regret it is linked to the first heat, where I made a mistake in the upper part ”. For the Carinthian, the chance on 3Tre will be really great, given that the feeling with Campiglio is particular if we think that the first podium of the career of the good Marco, at only 20 years old, came with a great comeback in the 2015 edition of the slalom on Canalone Miramonti (he was third behind Kristoffersen and Hirscher), and then climbed to the second step of the podium in 2018, beaten only by Yule. There remains the last step to climb, the most difficult one.

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