The podium of the super champions and the record of Feuz. Kilde's emotion for her injured friend Jansrud

The first descent of Beaver Creek saw a lot of Italy in front, with Marsaglia and Paris beaten only by Kilde, Mayer and the Swiss, who signed the record of podiums among the downhillers in the World Cup, detaching Klammer and Mueller. Their statements in the post-race.

Saturday 4 December 2021 6 minutes reading time

A splendid podium, “super champions” as Matteo Marsaglia himself defined them, forced to fourth place by three sacred monsters such as Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Matthias Mayer and Beat Feuz. The number 1 descent of Beaver Creek, awaiting the rerun on Sunday, gave us back a phenomenon like the Norwegian: the victory in the super-g on Friday could not be a coincidence, but today's show of strength is scary, if we think that AAK won two races in a row on the fourth round after the return of a crusader. Crazy, as well as the swing of emotions experienced in the space of 24 hours, given that Kilde suffered a lot from the injury to teammate and great friend Kjetil Jansrud, who almost certainly saw her finish on the Birds of Prey. Olympic season (and career, unless Kjetil changes his mind after this injury). The exams at home, between Monday and Tuesday, will tell more about the condition of the veteran norge's knee, to which the winner of the 2020 CdM has dedicated other thoughts in today's post descent. “He is a great leader and I am really sorry for what happened, I am happy to be able to dedicate two such victories to him. It is a beautiful and at the same time sad moment, let's hope well for Kjetil ”. Matthias Mayer, with second place at 66 cents from the Norwegian, has consolidated a red bib that he will try to carry to the end, after winning at Lake Louise and having struck another place of honor in the first super-g and one fourth yesterday. Attention, because the Carinthian could be Marco Odermatt's first rival in the race for the absolute crystal ball. “Today it worked as I had planned, only I lost a lot of time coming out of the steep. I am very satisfied with second place, because I have always struggled here and getting on the podium is fantastic ”, analyzed the two Olympic champion. A special day, even if bittersweet, also for Beat Feuz. The consistency on the podium of the red-cross phenomenon is incredible, so much so that the third place of this descent means 42nd time in the top 3 in the World Cup descents, a new all-time solo record. Until now, in fact, the four-time winner of the specialty cup shared the number 41 with two very champions like Franz Klammer and Peter Mueller. At the microphones of SRF, however, Feuz was far from happy considering the mistake made at the top that precluded any chance of victory, even before the descent of Kilde. “I committed a stupidity, I had everything under control on the steep, but I didn't take that meter of space to avoid the impact. After that hit on the post, I didn't know where I was for three more goals as the blow to the head was violent. The rest of the descent, however, satisfies me because it was very good ”. And on Sunday, in the last of the Beaver Creek poker, we will have to deal with him ...

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