Hirscher speaks again: "I wrote to Feller immediately, how nice he won. Future? I have some projects"

This afternoon the Salzburg champion was the protagonist of a live talk with AUDI. "Too many injuries? Yes, the pace is really too high".

Saturday 16 January 2021 5 minutes reading time

Almost four weeks after one of the very rare appearances he had made to Servus TV to deny, a few days after the “famous” video with a ski training in Reiteralm, he returned to talk about the possible return to the white circus. Marcel Hirscher today was the protagonist in Salzburg (initially the idea was to do it in Kitzbuehel a few days before the Hahnenkammrennen races, but the situation linked to the Coronavirus advised to change location) of a live talk promoted by Audi and conducted by journalist Stefan Steinacher, to talk about the present and the future starting from the second consecutive triumph in slalom of his former teammates. The ace catch all with his eight consecutive World Cups, he had just admired on TV the success of Manuel Feller in Flachau: "I saw the second heat and I think it is fantastic what the boys did - the words of Marcel - They are very happy for Manu, he was very fast and also very attentive. It's nice to see them playing for podiums and victories in the second year after my retirement, I immediately wrote a message to the winner, he really deserved it ”. Even before knowing about the serious injury to Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Hirscher said he considered the World Cup a "very open question since we are practically at the beginning of the season, even if Pinturault was super in giant", while the many physical troubles of the former colleagues hit him. “What happened in a single race weekend is very bad - he said referring to the races in Adelboden and St. Anton - It leads us to reflect on how brutal this sport is, but now everything is taken to the limit. I've always been in favor of slowing down, I don't think anything changes for the show to see less speed and risks. If a giant slalom today is eleven seconds faster than when I was competing (referring to what Kristoffersen said in recent days about the giants of Adelboden, judged dangerous by the Norwegian, ed), then I believe that a first step towards injury prevention would be to control the speeds more ”. The umpteenth question on the possible comeback? “It's okay for me now, the accumulated stress was really a lot and when you are out for so long, you tell yourself that it is no longer possible to get back into the loop. My future? We want to create a high quality ski clothing line (a project that emerged a few weeks after the announcement of the withdrawal, which took place on September 4, 2019), but which is within everyone's reach. The plan was not to make racing suits, but there have been many requests and to those who asked me if I still had one, I replied that I need it to try to become club champion in Annaberg this year. It's a title I still miss ... ”.

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