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The Austrian national team is also preparing for the Lake Louise races in the training center at Copper Mountain.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 5 minutes reading time
And the Wunderteam is definitely aiming high, for the season of speed at the start with descent and super-g of the World Cup in Canada, on the weekend of 30 November-1 December.
Having recovered all the best men from various physical problems, the eaglets present themselves with a poker of men not bad: Hannes Reichelt is the veteran of the group and at 39, after having put aside the bad doping affair that had involved him, before that he was acquitted of any accusation, he seeks at least a great blow in one of the classics of the circuit, perhaps in "his" Kitzbuehel that saw him go up for the last time on the podium, in 3rd place of the descent on the Streif the 20 January 2018.
The most important cards to bring back to Austria at least one World Cup of specialty in speed, a trophy that is missing in the immense white and red bulletin board even from the 2011/12 season (when Klaus Kroell imposed himself downhill), should answer the names of Vincent Kriechmayr, Matthias Mayer and Max Franz.
The 28-year-old from Gramastetten, double world medal in Are and beaten by Dominik Paris in the last race of last year, in the challenge for the crystal ball in super-g, considers the two weeks in Colorado “the most important during the preparation towards the season, because this is where we can fix the basic details to compete at the top ".
As for the bi Olympic champion (descent in Sochi 2014, super-g in PyeongChang 2018), it must be said that Mayer is back from a season with only two podiums (2nd in super-g in Bormio, 3rd down in Kvitfjell ) and, in the year without major events, he will have to "wake up" and be much more continuous during the many events scheduled to finally aim for a World Cup.
Who wants a crystal ball in the living room of his home, as he declared openly in the last few days, is a Max Franz (in the picture in flight on the Saslong) that, disposed of Kitzbuehel's injury that forced him to close the 2018/19 season for the fracture remedied to the right heel, returning to training without particular problems since the summer. The Carinthian had lived the best season of his career, in full fight for the red bib at least until the end of December, after winning the Lake Louise descent and the Beaver Creek super-g within a week: "I'm fine and I think to be able to return soon to that level - the 30-year-old from Klagenfurt said - The goal is to gamble at least for a specialty cup, it is the goal of our whole team â€.
Dominik Paris, Beat Feuz and company won't agree much: it will be a real battle this year in speed ...
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