The black day of Austria: Feller's 28th place the worst giant result in history!

Garmisch has reached the negative record of the Wunderteam: never so bad in the World Cup. Coach Puelacher: "We have a problem". And Knauss attacks ...

Sunday 2 February 2020 3 minutes reading time

An authentic disaster. If the Kandahar (the real one, not the one we ran on today) had been the reign of Marcel Hirscher in the last three editions of the giant of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, literally dominated by the Salzburg champion, today Austria has touched the most bass. Yes, because the 28th final place of Manuel Feller, the only Wunderteam standard bearer to qualify for the 2nd heat (he was 16th at the halfway point), is Austria's worst result ever in a men's World Cup giant . Two sixth places from Schwarz (in Alta Badia) and Leitinger (in the last Adelboden race) had arrived this year, but the crisis in the mother discipline had already appeared evident in Soelden. And the manager Andreas Puelacher admitted in the post race: "It is a black day, useless to hide. We offer too little in this specialty: we already have little density to compete at the highest level, then there are also counter-performances such as those of Leitinger and Brennsteiner, which put too much pressure on themselves ". A great ex like Hans Knauss, now a television commentator, has not used many turns of words: â€œYou can go back from this situation, but it hurts the heart to see all this. The giant is the base, we cannot afford certain results. Solutions must be found. "

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