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Kronen Zeitung
A little less than three months after the announcement of the withdrawal, the Salzburg champion presents his first book.
Friday 22 November 2019 4 minutes reading time
"Marcel Hirscher - Die Biografie". Very simply, the biography of Marcel Hirscher, which will be released on Monday 25 November with many anecdotes about a career that ended only on 4 September, but which the winner of the last 8 World Cups has decided to tell thanks to the work of Alex Hofstetter, journalist of the Kronen Zeitung, and of the "loyalists" Stefan Illek, the historical press officer, and the coach who accompanied him in all his triumphs, Michael Pircher.
A volume of over 300 pages, published by Egoth Verlag, published in German, but which will soon be available in Italian as well as in English, French and Dutch.
Among the excerpts published this morning by the Austrian media, the confirmation that, on the occasion of the "hot days" of January 2012, when Hirscher was at the center of a real case for the seen-not seen in slalom, gained great prominence the Annaberg-Lungotz ace received "death threats, so much so that my family was forced to live protected by bodyguards".
There are many anecdotes revealed, from his father Ferdinand who, in October 2014, solves the problems in training in Pitztal using a circular saw to work on Marcel's skis, which will then dominate the giant of Soelden a few days later, to what it is cost in terms of energy, physical and nervous, the gold won in slalom at the last World of Are. "I had to pay a very high price for those days," he confessed, referring to the giant's hardest eve, with viruses and high fever.
And then the Madonna di Campiglio drone ("I was a tenth slower, maybe everything would have changed. I hope I no longer need so many guardian angels in my life"), to the relationship with his wife Laura. "Without her, I would not have won all these cups and medals. He knew me all the way, treating me like any other person. "
In the book there are also the words of Ingemar Stenmark, the most successful skier in terms of World Cup races, which defines Marcel as "the strongest skier ever, because the difficulty of conquering so many crystal balls in this era, is simply unique ", and those even sweeter than the friend and former great rival Felix Neureuther.
"While I waited for his arrival in Schladming, in the world championship slalom of 2013 (the Bavarian was leading before the last descent of Hirscher, ed), I closed my eyes and felt a unique atmosphere. I hoped Marcel would win, to see what would have happened in that stadium ... ".
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