Feuz is a joy expected for years: "On the roller coaster". Furia Clarey: "The final leap risks drama"

The joy of the Kitzbuehel winner, for the first time in his career master of the descent on the Streif. Mayer "happy with 2nd place, but I'll try again tomorrow". The Frenchman, fourth, lashes out against FIS and the organizers: "For two days we have been asking to file the jump, almost nothing has been done".

Friday 22 January 2021 6 minutes reading time

Voices post Streif, with all the thrills and adrenaline that gives the queen descent. It was right that the gondola lift dedicated to each winner of Kitzbuehel also bears the signature of a great champion like Beat Feuz and, after years of waiting and four second places, today finally the winner of the last three downhill World Cups has put the his seal on the most important day of the year for a downhill skier (even if the "original" race will be that of Saturday, little changes). The 14th gem of the Swiss career also means second place in the specialty ranking, just 12 points behind Matthias Mayer, to turn in a season that so far had not seen Feuz very brilliant (only one podium, third in Val Gardena), also if the cancellations between North American stages, always very welcome, and the beloved Wengen, had certainly not helped him. To the microphones of SRF, Beat defined his descent on the Streif "not perfect, especially at the attack of the 'Hausbergkante", but the golden chamois ended up in his hands on a day when Switzerland, and all his athletes, including the winner, trembled over Urs Kryenbuehl's terrible crash. “It was really bad, luckily he is better and I can say it was a roller coaster race. Suffice it to say that when I made the jump to the Seidlalm, I thought I flew to the restaurant terrace ”, smiled Beat referring to the passage in the“ heart ”of the Streif. And when the race stopped for a long time, after bib 23, due to the wind that could also have led to the definitive cancellation, the Swiss confessed to ORF. "My head could not have resisted such a disappointment." At just 16 cents from Feuz, the winner of the Kitz 2020 descent, Matthias Mayer, did not hide great satisfaction with today's result which, after the victory in Bormio, also means red bib. "It was a great race, I am very satisfied - the analysis of the two Olympic champion at oesv.at - Beat was perfect, I think I lost those 16 cents in the flat section, but I will try to do better tomorrow". At the foot of the podium, with just over 3 tenths of a second behind Dominik Paris, a stoic Johan Clarey; the 40-year-old transalpine sprinter, who has an extraordinary feeling with this track, crashed violently on the final jump of the Streif in the second and final test on Thursday. And after what happened today with Kryenbuehl, he let off steam at “Ski Chrono”. “I am, to say the least, angry with the organizers and the FIS - explained Johan - For two days we have been asking to work on the last jump because it shoots too much, then we arrive in reconnaissance and almost nothing has been done. Today it was difficult mentally for me, but also physically because the blows came out, I had to throw all my courage on the track and I'm happy with what I did. Today, however, there are still too many injuries: we have to find solutions to slow down, I've never seen a Streif from 1 '' 53 "and here at every slightest mistake you risk drama".

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