The return of Matthias Mayer: in Zermatt on skis after five months and the wedding, dreaming of a ... first

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The two-time Olympic champion will go on the assault of a crystal ball and his first world medal in the 2020/21 season: his preparation has begun in Zermatt.

Wednesday 12 August 2020 3 minutes reading time

He was back on skis more than five months after that 7 March, when in Kvitfjell he took the downhill success to the future winner of the World Cup, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. The best season of Matthias Mayer's career, seasoned by the triumph in the most important race, beating everyone on the Streif of Kitzbuehel, did not bring the Carinthian the first crystal ball of his career, what will be the first goal in the 2020/21 vintage ; the two Olympic champion will aim decisively at the World Cups in speed, but also pay attention to his possibilities in a general perspective, on the other hand he was already fighting last season, until at the end of January he was blocked by a strong flu before of the Garmisch races. The 30-year-old Austrian sprinter, who also achieved the first success of his combined career in Wengen, returned to the snow earlier this week in Zermatt, together with Vincent Kriechmayr and his companions from the Wunderteam on the Zermatt glacier; free field to start and then immediately a lot of quality, also because you will not fly overseas in the autumn. Mayer will remain on the Matterhorn until 18 August, exactly two months after the opening in Soelden where he will try to improve the excellent 15th place obtained on the Rettenbach in last year's giant. And from there we will begin to understand if "Mothl" will have the opportunity to play for something more important than the specialty cups, in addition to betting decisively on the first medal in the world at Cortina 2021, he who in major world events is not never got on the podium, referring to the Sochi and PyeongChang Games with two extraordinary gold medals. “And I would like to go on until the Italian Games of 2026”, he promised a couple of months ago after he turned 30 and celebrated by marrying his Claudia.

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